On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 2:08 PM, Philip Oakley <philipoak...@iee.org> wrote:
> From: "Jacob Keller" <jacob.kel...@gmail.com>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 10:36 AM, Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Jake suggested using "x false" instead of "edit" for some corner cases.
>>>
>>> I do prefer using "x false" for all kinds of things such as stopping
>>> before a commit (edit only let's you stop after a commit), and the
>>> knowledge that "x false" does the least amount of actions behind my back.
>>>
>>> We should have that command as well, maybe?
>>>
>>
>>
>> I agree. I use "x false" very often, and I think stop is probably a
>> better solution since it avoids spawning an extra shell that will just
>> fail. Not sure if stop implies too much about "stop the whole thing"
>> as opposed to "stop here and let me do something manual", but I think
>> it's clear enough.
>>
> 'hold' or 'pause' maybe options (leads to
> http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/put+on+hold offering procastinate etc.)
> 'adjourn'.
>
>

I like break, as suggested by Dscho. That also works well for
abbreviation if we drop the "bud" command.

Thanks,
Jake

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