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[PATCH] Specify 'tab-bar-history-mode' in 'winner-mode' docstring

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From: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: juri <at> linkov.net, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, 76439 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#76439: [PATCH] Specify 'tab-bar-history-mode' in 'winner-mode' docstring
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 08:09:13 -0500

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In English, naive is correct as an adapted old-French word (same with naif).

No hyphen necessary as there is no clarification needed for the object of
the adjective.

Let's go for broad clarity over brevity.

On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> >>>>> On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 07:18:22 -0500, Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
> said:
>
>     Ship> On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
> wrote:
>     >> [வெள்ளி பிப்ரவரி 21, 2025] Ship Mints wrote:
>     >>
>     >> > Not sure what it means to "turn" a window configuration.  Perhaps
>     >> something
>     >> > like below is simpler and gets the salient point across and adds
> the key
>     >> > binding information winner-mode users might find to be helpful
>     >> > encouragement.
>     >> >
>     >> > If you use `tab-bar-mode', consider using `tab-bar-history-mode',
> as
>     >> > `winner-mode' is unaware of tab switching, and can confuse
> `tab-bar'
>     >> > window configurations.  `tab-bar-history-mode' provides
>     >> > tab-specific window configuration history, avoiding this problem,
> and
>     >> > its default key bindings match those of `winner-mode'.
>     >>
>     >> I find "can confuse `tab-bar' window configurations" lacking in
> detail.
>     >> If the problem is the verb "turn", what do you think about using
>     >> "change" or "replace" instead?
>     >>
>
>     Ship> How about "`winner-mode' window-configuration histories are tab
> naive, and
>     Ship> will produce unexpected results when used with `tab-bar-mode`."
>
> Iʼd say "are not aware of tabs", just to avoid us discussing whether
> itʼs "tab naive", "tab naïve", "tab-naive", or "tab-naïve" 🙂
>
> Robert
> --
>

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