[Geany] autocomplete terminology confusion

[John Gabriele]

On 10/22/07, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:54:03 -0400, "John Gabriele" <jmg3000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > The actual behaviour is, of course, to expand a small piece of text
> > into a larger piece -- regardless of whether or not it's code. So,
> > really, neither "code snippets" nor "snippets" are names that fit
> > actual behaviour. I just thought "snippets" would be simpler, and more
> > general sounding.
>
> Why doesn't fit snippets at all?
> I think it is good enough and I'm not really sure about your last
> sentence. You also suggest snippets or you are against? To me it sounds
> a bit contrary.
>

What I mean is, "snippet" is a handy little word that is useful not
because it has a terribly well-defined meaning, but because it's
slang-ey enough that we can assign to it a specific meaning for Geany.
I think it's a good fit for use with this Geany feature. It would work
well, mostly because people are already familiar with seeing it in
other editors, and have a preconceived idea of what it probably does.

So, when I'd suggested using plain "snippets" instead of "code
snippets", you'd stated, "IMO it fits the actual behaviour more than
auto completion.". I think this is where there was confusion. I was
agreeing with you about using the word "snippets" -- I just thought it
would be better without the word "code" in front of it. :)