> From: "Drew Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 16:25:53 -0700 > > 2. Don't reference "buffer" or "file" in File menu items, when this just > refers to the current buffer/file (or the one that will become current). The > unreferenced object in a File menu item is understood to be the current > buffer/file. And the distinction between file and buffer is not needed here. > > - New File -> New (but Open is better - see 3, below) > - Save (current buffer) -> Save > - Close (current buffer) -> Close > - Save Buffer As -> Save As > - Print Buffer -> Print > - PostScript Print Buffer -> PostScript Print > - Revert Buffer -> Revert > > People are used to all of these File commands in other applications. You > don't see "Save Page" or "Close Page" in Web-browsers or "Save File" in > other editors.
We refer to the buffer on purpose: we want users to see Emacs terminology even in the menus, and even when the menus are following established UI guidelines and use standard entries like "New" and "Close". > a. Currently, there is an inconsistency wrt "Buffer" and "(current buffer)". That's not an inconsistency: in the first case, "Buffer" is part of the command name; in the second, it's a minor comment about the command's operation. > New is better than New File (but see 3, below). No, it is not better, since it doesn't say what new entity is created. Other GUI programs have a submenu there or work only with one type of entities (or just leave it vague, which we didn't want to do). > 3. WRT 2b, it is true that the file or buffer opened need not in fact be > new, so even "New" is misleading. The problem arises because we need a name > to distinguish open-new-or-existing-buffer-for-new-or-existing-file from > Open File (existing file only). A better name for New would be just "Open". "New" is a standard entry in the "File" menu, so I don't think renaming it to (a non-standard) "Open" is a good idea. > 4. A better name for Revert is Reopen. Do you know of any other GUI applications that have such a menu entry? > 5. Move all of the window and frame stuff to a new menu, "Frames". Not good: we have a crammed menu bar already, adding more top-level items would only make things worse with no real advantage. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
