I thought of other prefixes, 'printing-' imposes a keystroke penalty, I would be ok with 'prn-' but I think that went away with dos 'lp' is another reference to a printer, but that goes way way back ...
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:28 PM, gatesphere <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/15/2013 9:35 PM, Terry Brown wrote: >> >> On Wed, 15 May 2013 16:03:47 -0700 >> Matt Wilkie <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Kent, >>> >>> I agree with the principle, that command completion is aided by good >>> quality names, but I don't understand why you think "print-xxx" as a >>> command to send something to a printer is not standard. Can you >>> elaborate? >> >> I think Kent meant the older commands >> >> print-all-uas >> print-bindings >> print-buttons >> print-commands >> print-focus >> print-node-uas >> print-plugin-handlers >> print-plugins-info >> print-settings >> >> would be better named list- or show-, so as no to intermingle with the >> new print-(to the printer) commands. >> >> Cheers -Terry > > As a concession, I could rename all of my print- commands to printing- (name > of the plugin) or printer- , but I generally agree that the older ones would > make more sense now as list- or display-. I can definitely see why they were > named print- previously, as print has a connotation among programmers to > mean "to the screen" rather than "to the printer". I'd rather not rename my > print- commands, though... they're already pretty long, and just descriptive > enough, I think. > > -->Jake > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "leo-editor" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en-US. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
