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Re: doc string for `yank' should mention "paste"
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Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: doc string for `yank' should mention "paste" |
Date: |
Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:27:51 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
> The doc string for `yank' should mention the commonly understood
> "paste" operation as a (rough) synonym. Yanking is more than pasting,
> but at a first approximation they are the same thing. Users
> should be able to find `yank' when they do `M-x
> apropos-documentation paste'.
>
> Similarly, the doc for `kill-region' should mention "cut" and the doc for
> `kill-ring-save' should mention "copy".
>
> We should provide a bridge between the vocabulary that many people are used
> to and the features and vocabulary of Emacs. We make this vocabulary effort
> in the Edit menu (but without bridging to the Emacs jargon); we should also
> do so in the doc strings of our basic commands that are similar to commands
> used in other apps.
>
Did you actually try to do M-x apropos RET paste RET ?
The apropos command has a list of aliases, e.g. paste => yank.
It works for apropos-documentation as well.
I
The list doesn't include selection => region, but I will add that.
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- doc string for `yank' should mention "paste", Drew Adams, 2006/03/06
- RE: doc string for `yank' should mention "paste", Drew Adams, 2006/03/06
- RE: doc string for `yank' should mention "paste", Drew Adams, 2006/03/06
- Re: doc string for `yank' should mention "paste", Richard Stallman, 2006/03/12
- RE: doc string for `yank' should mention "paste", Drew Adams, 2006/03/12
- Re: doc string for `yank' should mention "paste", Eli Zaretskii, 2006/03/12
- RE: doc string for `yank' should mention "paste", Drew Adams, 2006/03/13
- Re: doc string for `yank' should mention "paste", Eli Zaretskii, 2006/03/13
- Re: doc string for `yank' should mention "paste", Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2006/03/14
Re: doc string for `yank' should mention "paste",
Kim F. Storm <=
Re: doc string for `yank' should mention "paste", Richard Stallman, 2006/03/07