Being a noob myself, I would have appreciated to find the lists of commands within the help- (I like Terry's idea). Would have been very useful, since its difficult to find when noob.
On Thursday, May 16, 2013 4:14:16 PM UTC+2, Terry wrote: > > On Thu, 16 May 2013 09:41:58 -0400 > Jacob Peck <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > > On 5/16/2013 7:27 AM, Kent Tenney wrote: > > > 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 ... > > Hah, yeah... though `lp` is still relatively familiar to those of us who > > are unix sysadmins. > > > > As for prn-, I feel that shortcuts like that are icky when we have full > > tab completion. I'd rather be verbose and explanatory than short and > > cryptic. But printing- just feels wrong. So does printer-. > > I vote for using print-* for the new print commands (i.e. leaving them > as they are), and changing the old print- commands to show-, list-, or > even help-, depending on what Edward prefers - perhaps `show` is the > most descriptively accurate. > > Cheers -Terry > > > Just my $0.02 (for the nth time!) > > -->Jake > > > > > > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:28 PM, gatesphere > > > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > >> On 5/15/2013 9:35 PM, Terry Brown wrote: > > >>> On Wed, 15 May 2013 16:03:47 -0700 > > >>> Matt Wilkie <[email protected] <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>. > > >> To post to this group, send email to > > >> [email protected]<javascript:>. > > > >> 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.
