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Re: Visit New File menu item
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Phillip Lord |
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Re: Visit New File menu item |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Mar 2016 22:18:45 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Drew Adams <address@hidden> writes:
>> > Wouldn't "Create New File" make more sense? Or simply "New File"?
>>
>> I agree, "Visit New File" is somewhat bizarre, and I'm not even entirely
>> sure what it should mean. "Create New File" is obvious.
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-10/msg00555.html
>
> And other posts in that thread. And there have been other threads
> that painted this particular bike shed.
I am neither unsurprised to find that it has been discussed before, nor
surprised that some one remembers.
I'm having a go at writing a tutorial, and in the section on files, the
first thing I hit is trying to explain what "visit" means.
> Not that we can't give it another coat of paint - after all, that
> was 10 years ago.
Blue with red spots would be good.
Phil
- Visit New File menu item, Phillip Lord, 2016/03/11
- Re: Visit New File menu item, Joost Kremers, 2016/03/11
- Re: Visit New File menu item, Richard Stallman, 2016/03/12
- Re: Visit New File menu item, John Wiegley, 2016/03/12
- Re: Visit New File menu item, Phillip Lord, 2016/03/12
- Re: Visit New File menu item, John Wiegley, 2016/03/12
- Re: Visit New File menu item, Phillip Lord, 2016/03/12
- Re: Visit New File menu item, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/12
- Re: Visit New File menu item, John Wiegley, 2016/03/12