[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Change terminology to better align users’ experience with modern GUI
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Change terminology to better align users’ experience with modern GUIs |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Jul 2019 17:43:28 +0300 |
> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 12:44:48 +0200
> From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
>
> So a good strategy, if you're really hot & willing to change
> things would be to grab the documentation, and perhaps write
> a companion to the documentation "Glossary" (let's call it
> "Anti-Glossary" which translates "current" terms into the
> Emacs terminology. So someone searching for "window", "pane",
> "cursor", etc. has a chance to hit on the relevant documentation.
There's no need for "Anti-Glossary". Our Glossary already includes
some terminology from "other applications", such as "cut", "paste",
and "syntax highlighting". It could easily accommodate a few more.
> A next step might be to cross-index those "current" terms
> with the "traditional" ones.
These are already in the Glossary.