Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment:

An experienced non-CS computer user I asked does not like 'toggle x' or 'switch 
x', but would like whichever of 'show x' and 'hide x' is appropriate (rather 
than both).  For breakpoints, this would mean one menu entry, either 'set 
breakpoint' or 'clear breakpoint', rather than both (as currently).

A few Menu entries are labelled 'Show x'.  They don't need a 'Hide' menu  
variant as hiding is done otherwise.

Checkmarks are OK, but she would prefer an empty box or circle as an dialogs, 
so that clicking more obviously means 'turn on' when in the 'off' state.

It occurs to me now, after  at least 20 years of using menus,  that the logic 
of 'blank' is that 'blank' means 'do something', so that 'check' means 
'something was done, undo it'.  But I think that clicking 'clear breakpoint', 
for instance, is clearer than clicking 'v breakpoint', where 'v' represents a 
checkmark'.

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