Re: builtin editor: addresses vs users

"Kevin J. McCarthy" <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Jun 2026 18:41:59 +0800

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.mutt.devel
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On Mon, Jun 01, 2026 at 09:35:10AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>On 2026-06-01 06:58:10 +0200, Rene Kita wrote:
>> I would suspect historical reasons for using 'users', mail(1) does use
>> the same terminology here:
>>
>>      -c list
>>                   Send carbon copies to list of users. [...]
>>
>> Would be interesting to know, if it is because Unix is a multi-user
>> system and mail was primarily used to send email to other users.  Or if
>> the idea is just that in the end it's a user who receives the email.  I
>> like the version using 'users', it feels more personal.
>
>E-mail addresses may be mailing-list addresses or addresses
>to be handled entirely by software (e.g. subscription or BTS
>addresses), so I would say that "users" can be misleading.

I agree 'users' feels warmer, but Vincent is right.  The commit 
(86700b01) also came from a mutt translator, and translators usually 
have good instincts about preciseness of words, so I'm inclined to fix 
the ~t help to say addresses too.

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Kevin J. McCarthy
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