From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
Cc: 28998@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28998: 27.0.50; Man--sections is in reverse order
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 19:50:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvy66hf5.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zi8f18yw.fsf@gmail.com> (Basil L. Contovounesios's message of "Wed, 25 Oct 2017 17:35:35 +0100")
"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie> writes:
> -(defsubst Man-build-section-alist ()
> +(defsubst Man-build-section-list ()
Perhaps we should switch to defun while we're at it?
> - (let ((case-fold-search nil))
> + (let (case-fold-search)
Personally, I like the more explicit version here.
> AFAICT there is no purpose or benefit to keeping
> Man--sections reversed, other than avoiding a call to
> nreverse, which AFAIK is quite an efficient operation.
>
> Conversely, keeping the sections in their natural order
> (i.e. from (point-min) to (point-max)) both seems more
> natural and is more convenient for users of completion
> frontends like ivy.el.
Makes sense to me.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-25 16:35 bug#28998: 27.0.50; Man--sections is in reverse order Basil L. Contovounesios
2017-11-07 0:50 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2017-11-07 15:07 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2017-11-07 17:43 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-11-11 16:18 ` Noam Postavsky
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