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

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, stefan <at> marxist.se, 16074 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: RE: bug#16074: 24.3.50; enhancement request: Remove "pop" from
 command names & doc for `C-(u|x) C-SPC'
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 06:13:59 -0700 (PDT)

> > > 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.

And all of those terms are standard Emacs
terminology, defined clearly and used
consistently.

That's not the case with this outlier use
of "pop", which is not a pop but is exactly
what Emacs calls "cycling" of a ring.

And again, it's about the doc also, not
just the function names.

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