Re: basic question: going back to dired

[Dan Davison]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 02:14:20PM +0200, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 13:50, Juanma <juanma_bellon> wrote:
> 
> > And why should "shortcut" be more fitting than "keybinding"?
> 
> I don't know. I'm not even defending the idea that "shortcut" is more
> fitting. If anything, I'm defending the idea that "keybinding" is not
> very good, not because of any intrinsic quality or defect of the term
> "keybinding", just because it is a bit too specifically emacsy for
> something that many other programs allow, under a different name. The
> best name is the one the users understand more easily (whichever it
> may be).

Oh, I don't think I agree with that sort of lowest-common-denominator
linguistic relativism at all! That sort of attitude, combined with
neutral drift over time will result in a terrible, ugly, language with
no accuracy or etymological coherency whatsoever!

DAn