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From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>, 39138@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39138: 28.0.50; Add variables for shell command output buffer names
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 02:18:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rkf34cu.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9hsrozk.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 09 Aug 2020 14:19:11 +0200")

>> IMO, the two strings, `*Shell Command Output*' and
>> `*Async Shell Command*', deserve variables with their docstrings.
>
> Skimming the thread, the rough consensus here was that this was a good
> idea, but that these should be constants instead.  So I've applied the
> patch to Emacs 28 and then adjusted the variable/constant bit.

Oh, I noticed that the patch provided by Tino removed all mentions of
shell buffer names from the documentation.  While technically this is fine,
I tried to look from the point of view of users, and realized that it's
highly unlikely that the users might be interested to know the name of
the constant 'shell-command-buffer-name', whereas it's very important
for users to learn that the default name of the shell output buffer is
"*Shell Command Output*".

So it would be better to revert all changes in the documentation, and
anyway in https://debbugs.gnu.org/39138#16 Eli already asked not to mention
these variables in the manual.





  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-09 23:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-14 21:31 bug#39138: 28.0.50; Add variables for shell command output buffer names Tino Calancha
2020-01-14 22:43 ` Michael Albinus
2020-01-15  8:03   ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-15 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-15 19:41   ` Tino Calancha
2020-01-15 23:09     ` Juri Linkov
2020-02-25 13:12     ` Michael Albinus
2020-05-19  4:08       ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-19 14:09         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-19 14:16           ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-19 15:26             ` Tino Calancha
2020-08-09 12:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-09 23:18   ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2020-08-10 10:45     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-10 23:59       ` Juri Linkov
2020-08-11 11:16         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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