From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#51927: 27.2; Rename `highlight-nonselected-windows' Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 19:20:30 +0200 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <86wnl51np4.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14520"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: 51927@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 18 18:34:13 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mnlIa-0003c3-Ha for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:34:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54818 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mnlIZ-0000Ij-H2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 12:34:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:44758) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mnlIR-0000Fl-3Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 12:34:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53787) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mnlIQ-00008d-RP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 12:34:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mnlIQ-0006YX-OY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 12:34:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:34:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 51927 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 51927-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B51927.163725681425103 (code B ref 51927); Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:34:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 51927) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Nov 2021 17:33:34 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37091 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mnlHy-0006Wp-BK for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 12:33:34 -0500 Original-Received: from relay7-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.200]:60989) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mnlHw-0006WW-Ik for 51927@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 12:33:33 -0500 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay7-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 48D302000B; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:33:24 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 17 Nov 2021 21:03:45 +0000") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:220333 Archived-At: > This variable seems poorly named, in more ways than one. Could we > consider renaming it (by aliasing and perhaps deprecating the old name)? I agree that it's poorly named. In bug#49844 we are developing a new feature for which the most suitable name would be `highlight-nonselected-windows' - it will highlight nonselected windows by changing their background color. Unfortunately this name is already occupied by this unrelated variable. But like Eli said it's too late to rename this variable.