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bug#36206: [PATCH] Change `user-error' docstring from "pilot error" to "


From: Michael Albinus
Subject: bug#36206: [PATCH] Change `user-error' docstring from "pilot error" to "user error"
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 15:35:45 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> That is unfortunately not what Wikipedia or Google will show a
> confused user, not even when searching e.g. "pilot error software".
> So besides hacker lore, which only a subset of our users will be very
> familiar with, what is the benefit of using this term?

There are many terms Emacs uses, and which are not documented in Wikipedia.

For what is worth, I object such a change. If needed, we could give a
general guidance in the documentation, where to search for.

> Thanks,
> Stefan Kangas

Best regards, Michael.





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