Subject: Re: bug#16074: 24.3.50; enhancement request: Remove "pop" from command names & doc for `C-(u|x) C-SPC'

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 09:26:03 +0300

> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 23:09:45 +0300
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>, Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>,
>  [email-masked]
> 
> > A position is NOT popped off the ring.  That's what's
> > wrong with all of these.  Likewise, the doc in the
> > manuals.
> >
> > The enhancement request is to fix this wrong
> > terminology wrt BOTH `global-mark-ring' and
> > `mark-ring'.
> 
> And `yank' doesn't yank, and `kill' doesn't kill literally.

And 'window' is not a window, it's a pane; and 'frame' is actually a
window, etc. etc.

> What is the most important is that docstrings should describe
> the behavior in all details.  The name is more a matter of taste.

Indeed.  Especially since what these functions really do is only
slightly different from a literal "pop".

We shouldn't waste our time on such renaming, IMO.