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That documentation is thorough does not mean that it is good.

If anything, one might argue that Emacs documentation being so extensive while buing built around idiosyncratic conventions makes it worse, not better, for many cases: it means it is even harder for people to actually find relevant parts of the documentation.




Emacs itself is idiosyncractic. Being cute and using "standard" terminology would just confuse users.


This must be the funniest way to justify archaic terminology I've seen so far.




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