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bug#7077: 24.0.50; mouse-drag-copy-region - name should say copy as kill
From: |
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#7077: 24.0.50; mouse-drag-copy-region - name should say copy as kill |
Date: |
Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:02:34 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> I think that sounds reasonable, but, on the other hand, is it really
>> necessary for all these functions to mention "kill" in the function
>> name? It seems intuitive (to me) that `mouse-drag-copy-region' puts
>> stuff in the kill ring -- what else would it do?
>
> 1. "Copy" can mean a couple different things. One misunderstanding
> might be to copy the region to another location in a buffer - a la
> copy + paste.
>
> 2. It's helpful for Emacs to be consistent and put important Emacs
> terms into command names that involve them.
That's true, but I'm not sure that this consistency is worth renaming
user-visible customisation variables just to be that consistent.
I was confused -- I thought `mouse-drag-copy-region' was a function, but
it's a variable, which makes renaming even more of a problem, in my
opinion.
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