From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Davis Herring Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal: alias `clear-buffer` to `erase-buffer` Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 17:45:43 -0700 Organization: XCP-1 Message-ID: <8175b48e-cbb7-4c55-fc18-12b5f3862d66@lanl.gov> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1485391562 29111 195.159.176.226 (26 Jan 2017 00:46:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 00:46:02 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 Cc: Emacs developers To: Tianxiang Xiong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 26 01:45:55 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cWYCI-0006qn-PS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:45:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35399 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cWYCN-00004t-IB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2017 19:45:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38900) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cWYCE-0008VL-SQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2017 19:45:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cWYCA-0001XB-TN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2017 19:45:50 -0500 Original-Received: from proofpoint5.lanl.gov ([2001:400:4210:400::a5]:43096) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cWYCA-0001Wv-N3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2017 19:45:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailrelay1.lanl.gov (mailrelay1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.101]) by mailgate5.lanl.gov (8.15.0.59/8.15.0.59) with ESMTP id v0Q0jh12018017; Wed, 25 Jan 2017 17:45:43 -0700 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C6DC144E0E6; Wed, 25 Jan 2017 17:45:43 -0700 (MST) X-NIE-2-Virus-Scanner: amavisd-new at mailrelay1.lanl.gov Original-Received: from bismuth.lanl.gov (bismuth.lanl.gov [128.165.246.103]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46CA7144E0E3; Wed, 25 Jan 2017 17:45:43 -0700 (MST) In-Reply-To: X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.15.154, 1.0.8, 0.0.0000 definitions=2017-01-25_17:2017-01-24, 2017-01-25, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:400:4210:400::a5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:211607 Archived-At: > - `clear-string` > - `clear-rectangle` I'm not sure the analogy follows: these two replace a container's contents with some sort of blank, but don't change their size to be 0. Davis -- This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during shipping.