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From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 23085@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23085: 24.5; `customized-changed-options`
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2021 20:47:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zh0fzjta.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r1lrnbki.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 07 Feb 2021 17:26:37 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>> Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2021 15:07:54 +0100
>> Cc: 23085@debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>>     (customize-changed-options-previous-release): Prev release is 21.1.
>>     (customize-changed-options): Doc fix.
>>     (customize-changed): New alias.
>> 
>> And the doc string for customize-changed-options was changed to reflect
>> what it does, i.e., what you'd expect `customize-changed' to do.
>> 
>> This is kinda backwards, so I've now flipped this, and made
>> `customize-changed-options' an obsolete alias.
>
> I'm not sure this change is for the better: no one said that "options"
> should be interpreted narrowly as referring only to variables; and
> "customize-changed" is simply bad English and doesn't help
> understanding what it is about.  So I think Richard was right with
> that change.

I agree, but mostly just wanted to say that if customize-changed-options
is renamed, then its occurrences in code, docstrings, and the manual
should be updated, and the rename should probably be called out in NEWS.

Thanks,

-- 
Basil





  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-07 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-21 22:45 bug#23085: 24.5; `customized-changed-options` Drew Adams
2016-03-27  0:43 ` John Wiegley
2021-02-07 14:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-07 15:26   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-07 18:08     ` bug#23085: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-07 20:47     ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2021-02-08  6:10       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-08 15:15         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-09  7:20           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-08  6:05     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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