Hi
I would make a small change to say it is the 'current terminology' but not
the 'proper terminology'. I understand there is work involved in making
these changes to be more inclusive and that it isn't 'free'.
Does anyone else have thoughts on this change?
Thanks, Mike
On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 11:18 PM Dominique Pellé
wrote:
> Mike Fulton wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to propose removing the master/slave terminology from
> > the vim source code and replacng it with more inclusive, and hopefully
> > more accurate, terminology.
> > I am open to suggestions for the right terms to use.
> > The particular area that I see most occurrences in is the 'pty' code.
> > How about using controller/controlled instead of master/slave (or perhaps
> > controlling/controlled?) ?
> > I would be happy to develop and test the patch. I believe this would
> > strictly be changes to variable names but I would need to do a more
> > thorough check to see if there are any externals.
>
> I'm no expert on pty, but master/slave seems to be the
> proper terminology. I e.g. see it here:
>
> https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/pty.7.html
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoterminal
>
> I understand that there is a trend to replace for example
> the master branch by the main branch in git repos as
> some people feel offended by the terminology. But frankly,
> there is no reason to be offended by a word when its
> meaning clearly depends on the context. There was
> clearly not ill intention in the terminology. And renaming
> causes problems to users and to existing scripts. Now
> when I'm in a git repo, I no longer know whether I need
> to checkout from master, or main, or trunk, or dev, or
> root, or unicornbranch (...) as it depends on each project.
>
> Regards
> Dominique
>
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