Re: [PATCH] Add "stg bury" command, with the functionnality of contrib/stg-sink.

From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Apr 18, 2007, 07:41 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704180840100.4684@beast.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4625874E.5040505@vilain.net>

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Sam Vilain wrote:

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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>>> But 'bury' means to hide or even kill.
>>>>
>>>> How about "raise" and "lower" ?
>>>>
>>> Or "immerse" ("immerge"?) as another opposite of "float" :-)
>>>
>>> I don't have any opinion on this, it's up to Yann to argue.
>>>
>> As a user, to me, 'bury' feels perfect and I am not annoyed by
>> the connotation, perhaps maybe I am used to 'bury-buffer' in
>> Emacs.
>>
>
> Sure... and from my own perspective as a user, I didn't even realise
> what float did until now, and was surprised that "bury" would mean that.
> The metaphor is a stack, not a pool or a sandpit. I don't think those
> terms really assist in understanding, however cute they are.

I find that bury is more natural than float (thinking of a stack of documents on a desk ...). But then I don't use stg ...

-- 
Julian

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