Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED]

[Jean Louis]

* Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com> [2020-11-03 22:11]:
> Also, since you mentioned the 'master branch'... I'm not a regular
> lurker on this mailing list, so this may already have been discussed...
> Is emacs planning on renaming its 'master branch' to something less
> evocative of some 'master race'? You may have caught wind of the trend
> to nudge society world-wide to a bit more sensitivity to historic
> atrocities world-wide. Even github has recently gotten on-board and no
> longer sets default branches to 'master branch'; they use 'main branch'
> now. If it hasn't been discussed yet, let me know and I'll start a
> dedicated thread with appropriate subject line.

Where I am now in East Africa, it is difficult to find person who read
more than 3 books. My friend who lives here temporarily, she finished
literature in Uganda and she read 3 books in total. And she is fine
with me telling you this. There is nothing wrong with the word master
as it is not used in the context that those less educated people would
assume.

The Wordnet dictionary does not even mention the context you mentioned
here.

The word main is synonym to master. It accommodates those less
educated people and their sensitivies.

In that context it is not noun, rather adjective "master branch"

* Overview of noun master

The noun master has 10 senses (first 6 from tagged texts)
1. (8) maestro, master -- (an artist of consummate skill; "a master of the 
violin"; "one of the old masters")
2. (5) overlord, master, lord -- (a person who has general authority over 
others)
3. (1) victor, master, superior -- (a combatant who is able to defeat rivals)
4. (1) master -- (directs the work of others)
5. (1) headmaster, schoolmaster, master -- (presiding officer of a school)
6. (1) master, master copy, original -- (an original creation (i.e., an audio 
recording) from which copies can be made)
7. master, captain, sea captain, skipper -- (an officer who is licensed to 
command a merchant ship)
8. master -- (someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution)
9. master, professional -- (an authority qualified to teach apprentices)
10. passkey, passe-partout, master key, master -- (key that secures entrance 
everywhere)


So this is the proper context for "master branch".

* Overview of adj master

The adj master has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. chief, main, primary, principal, master -- (most important element;
"the chief aim of living"; "the main doors were of solid glass"; "the
principal rivers of America"; "the principal example"; "policemen were
primary targets"; "the master bedroom"; "a master switch")

Less educated people will not know what is noun, adjective, verb, what
is present time, history and so on, they will ANYWAY mix everything
together.

* Overview of adj main

The adj main has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (33) chief, main, primary, principal, master -- (most important element; 
"the chief aim of living"; "the main doors were of solid glass"; "the principal 
rivers of America"; "the principal example"; "policemen were primary targets"; 
"the master bedroom"; "a master switch")
2. independent, main -- ((of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone 
as a complete sentence; "the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence 
has at least a subject and a verb")
3. main -- (of force; of the greatest possible intensity; "by main strength")