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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Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 15:47:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch, wontfix

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #43 received at 16074 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: stefan <at> marxist.se, 16074 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com,
 Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: Re: bug#16074: 24.3.50; enhancement request: Remove "pop" from
 command names & doc for `C-(u|x) C-SPC'
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:47:13 +0200
Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> 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.

OK, it doesn't sound like this renaming was greatly favoured, so I'm
closing this bug report.

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