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Re: why `view-lossage' is called so?


From: drf5n
Subject: Re: why `view-lossage' is called so?
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 13:38:44 -0400 (EDT)

On 26 Apr 2003, [iso-8859-2] Janusz S. Bie? wrote:

>
> The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (06 Jun 01) says:
>
> lossage
...
>
> I see no relation between the meaning of the word and the results of
> `view-lossage' commands.

I think of it as more of a lossage-recovery tool:  If you need to
view-lossage, you've probably experienced an unexpected lossage.  It might
make better sense named as 'view-keyboard-log' or 'view-keystroke-log',
but I've always had a hard time guessing the right keywords for emacs
commands.

Dave
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