Return to Reverse Execution

Bob Rossi bob@brasko.net
Fri Jan 13 16:02:00 GMT 2006


On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:19:36AM -0500, Paul Koning wrote:
> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
>  >> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 20:28:06 -0800 From: Michael Snyder
>  >> Eli, I'm certainly willing to consider it, but as I review the
>  >> previous discussion, it seems like you were the only proponant of
>  >> these names.
> 
>  Eli> That might be so, but please note that you yourself used
>  Eli> ``back'' and ``backward'' in almost every other place in your
>  Eli> description except the command names.  Doesn't this tell you
>  Eli> something?
> 
> I'll add my voice to Eli.  "Back" is a direction; "reverse" is (in one
> of its meanings) a change of direction.

Has anyone even considered "Previous", instead of "Back" or "Reverse"?
I mean, Previous/Next go together IMO, just as Backward/Forward go together.

It makes perfect sense to me to allow the user to go the the previous
executed line.

Bob Rossi



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