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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.



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