* On 10 May 2015, Derek Martin wrote: > On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 10:39:39AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > > When I rewrote those functions, "f" seemed to be an undocumented choice > > doing the same thing as (c)lear and corresponding to "forget it" in the > > comments. > > I wrote the patch that led to these menus being in their current > state, arguing that the original menus were too ambiguous and > informal. The original choice was "(f)orget it"--it took some > convincing for Thomas (Rosselar) to take the patch, and when he did he > insisted on keeping the (f) choice as an undocumented choice because > his brain was hard-wired to use it. > > There's a discussion about this in the archives... if anyone cares to > dig it up. Probably about 10 or 11 years ago I'm guessing, but I > could be wrong.
This sounds more or less correct to me, although I didn't think it was that long ago. I still press 'f' from time to time without having noticed it's no longer an actual menu option. I could go either way on keeping it, but I don't see that it does any harm. If we keep it, it deserves a comment though. Maybe just '/* f: backward compatibility to (f)orget it; see <url of discussion> */'. -- David Champion • d...@bikeshed.us
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