Re: lynx-dev new command format

[Philip Webb]

990708 Klaus Weide commented further on my proposed `:' command:

the two of us have taken this debate as far as we can:
it now awaits others' comments or someone's attempt at coding.

> since you agreed that less ambiguous terminology is a good thing
> the term 'renaming lynxactioncodes' is ambiguous.
> It could mean changing the LYK_SOMETHING in the code
> or the "SOMETHING" user-visible (now in lynx.cfg and 'K'eymap page
> and with ':' implementation also at the ':' prompt) or both.
> We can say each lynxactioncode has two names:
> One internal (programmer's view) & one external (user's view).
> We could use yet another term for the second, like lynxactionname.
> (Or maybe just 'command name', after all.)
 
this is all true & provokes  1  word from me: `maintainability' (smile).

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