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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen'" <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 8757@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8757: 24.0.50; `find-grep-options' - fn name doesn't fit doc string
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:24:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5A194E683A4B4C16B319B38BF3E2B939@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3hb6n7hqb.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>

> I agree that the variable name is not optimal, but it's not actively
> misleading, and changing it would be of little benefit.  I'm closing
> this report.

You apparently don't agree to changing _any_ names - at least so far.

That's silly.  Of course it would benefit users to give this a better name.  And
yes, Emacs does not call switches "options".  This is clearly a bug on at least
two levels.






  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-15 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-29 22:26 bug#8757: 24.0.50; `find-grep-options' - fn name doesn't fit doc string Drew Adams
2011-07-15 14:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-15 15:24   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-07-15 15:28     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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