https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164519

--- Comment #2 from William Friedman <[email protected]> ---
This seems to me to conflate several issues, which I take responsibility for
having conflated in my initial report. Your response seems focused on my
grammatical nitpick about next/last and previous/following, which I am willing
to concede. (I do not concede that insisting on proper grammar is "torture",
but it is a level of professionalism that perhaps should not be expected from
volunteers.)

The same cannot be said of the description of .uno:GoUp as "To Top Line." There
is no version of English in which that makes any intuitive sense. "To Top Line"
could possibly mean, as I wrote, "to the top line of the page" or "to the top
line of the document" or maybe "to the top line of the paragraph"; were it not
already bound to the "Up" arrow key, the interpretation "to the line
immediately on top of this one" is not in the first several guesses. And while
it's true that hovering over the text "to top line" eventually displays the uno
command, which in this case is more easily understood than the label, it seems
perverse that one needs to reveal the underlying uno command in order to
understand what is supposed to be the clearer, human-readable label.

I also take exception to the argument that "we expect a user doing
customization will assign and test actual command functions to *grok* its use."
If that's the case, then what's the point of the function labels in the first
place? Just reveal the uno commands and be done with it. Presumably the point
of function labels is to make customization more accessible to users with less
technical knowledge. But confusing labels like "to top line" make that harder;
labels that are downright wrong, like "select to document begin/end" which
actually, in a table, selects to the beginning or end of a cell (except when it
doesn't), actively frustrate the user. I don't see any way to describe that
except as a bug.

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