[Eric] Eric Digest, Vol 123, Issue 6

[Phil Thompson]

On 19 Sep 2016, at 4:07 pm, Peter Silcock <smallcreep at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> In reply to comments about the suitability of the word "Abort" in
> dialogue buttons, I suugest that you visit Qt-Designer and quit the
> program with unsaved changes to a file.  The choices offered are
> "Discard", "Cancel" and "Save".

...which is entirely consistent with what I said.

> It is noticeable that the term "abort" is not used in software designed
> to avoid giving unnecessary offence to its users.

Unless you can point to a style guide I don't see how you can infer that.

Phil