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

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Message #14 received at 16074 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 16074 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16074: 24.3.50;
 enhancement request: Remove "pop" from command names & doc for
 `C-(u|x) C-SPC'
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 09:28:50 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 07:40:37 +0200
> Cc: 16074 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> >> The names and doc of the commands bound to `C-u C-SPC' and `C-x C-SPC'
> >> are misleading, in that the commands do not really "pop" the marker
> >> rings. They cycle the rings.  Markers are not removed from the rings
> >> by such "popping".
> >>
> >> Emacs uses the verb "cycle" for this kind of behavior elsewhere.  The
> >> same terminology should be used here also.  We should rename
> >> `pop-global-mark' and rephrase the doc.
> >
> > Heh.  I didn't even know that they didn't pop, after all these years.
> >
> > Yes, renaming here seems like a good idea.
> 
> How about the attached patch?

IMO, doing this is a waste of time, energy, VC resources and whatnot.

Just one opinion.

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