Re: SE2b GUI comments->Abbreviations!
Re: SE2b GUI comments->Abbreviations!
- Subject: Re: SE2b GUI comments->Abbreviations!
- From: Kai <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 08:19:19 +0000
on Wed, 22 Jan 2003 05:56:53 +0100, Philippe GRUCHET
<email@hidden> wrote:
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To improve its usage, including more abbreviations than the single
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'app' for 'application' would be really useful.
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So useful!
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Some examples:
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act activate
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AS AppleScript
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char character
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chars character
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clipb clipboard
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del delete
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doc document
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docs documents
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justif justification
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num number
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para paragraph
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paras paragraphs
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prop property
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props properties
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rep repeat
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res result
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ret return
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rev reverse
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str string
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strs strings
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vers version
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wiprop with property
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wiprops with properties
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All comments welcome, please.
There could be a trade-off here, Philippe. I imagine the longer this list of
synonyms, the fewer options we'd have for variable/handler names. (Rightly
or wrongly, I've used quite a few of those abbreviations in my scripts.)
--
Kai
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