From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: what is the convention for `info' and `Info'?
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:16:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2F534BF7BCA34199A6EBCF37A4382914@us.oracle.com> (raw)
Library info.el has a mix of vars, faces, and functions with names that begin
with `info' or `Info'. What is the convention here - when to use one or the
other? There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or (non-hysterical) reason.
There are internal vars and user options that use `Info'. All defvars except
`info-tool-bar-map' use `Info' (53/54). All defcustoms use `Info'. But all
deffaces (which are also for user customization) use `info'.
There are commands that use `info' and commands that use `Info'. Perhaps the
intended difference here is commands within *info* and commands to be used
anywhere (?). Similarly, there are non-interactive functions that use one or
the other.
This cannot, AFAICT, be helpful to users (or to maintainers, for that matter).
next reply other threads:[~2011-06-10 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-10 19:16 Drew Adams [this message]
2011-06-14 20:42 ` what is the convention for `info' and `Info'? Drew Adams
2011-06-14 21:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-06-14 22:18 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-06-14 23:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-06-14 22:00 ` Juri Linkov
2011-06-15 23:36 ` Richard Stallman
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