From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master baf1a7a4a0: Turn gv-synthetic-place into a function Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 22:00:56 +0300 Message-ID: <83czblq5jr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <835yhkzmn8.fsf@gnu.org> <878rmfx51p.fsf@web.de> <831qs7zj9e.fsf@gnu.org> <87v8piec78.fsf@web.de> <834jx2xphy.fsf@gnu.org> <878rmenmd4.fsf@web.de> <87sfklgmba.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87edw4bzrp.fsf@web.de> <83y1ucu4k9.fsf@gnu.org> <87y1ub7kjp.fsf@gnus.org> <83wn9vqrxa.fsf@gnu.org> <83bkr6r4s6.fsf@gnu.org> <83pmfmozld.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22958"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Howard Melman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 23 21:14:21 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1obo7x-0005q3-B8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 21:14:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45038 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1obo7w-0003N6-CC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:14:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58164) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1obnvK-0006Ty-2j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:01:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57726) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1obnvI-0003xm-T6; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:01:17 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=RS9Mb25+gDG5KJU9/56iu55O95UTJWWJrAiNP9QSnJg=; b=ibywh5Q7ueyG ZPBDmaDTUipfYcji3Ayq+97vLfHLYab1XkJn/6nSRa8sNeXA5M7SgofPAalSvgSVmC4cL7rTos+HX +m0EGFG7CgiwB+zYwCuwN/AyekXEAk2KpKHWAoo1lyUAyAFw6+sK3qnd7ZaEd/E2uFh/GmV79cJ1C Y1+gXS5UhcSML5Mw5YbltXcToyZ1hmtEl1Xfqq5MS6Bitp7S/v8dKlW+uqohLKW3adLWaNMHODPG9 BbmHfxSlV3LAM+NggB696oyjsj8ObKMUWFMQxL21AypXM5yuEB4kUKVgDT6gHMl4AqXS+0TtbIFqK rL0iW0U6VRHap6XPqLapJA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1195 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1obnv5-0003Kw-TN; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:01:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Howard Melman on Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:11:28 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:296081 Archived-At: > From: Howard Melman > Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:11:28 -0400 > > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> From: Howard Melman > >> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 09:42:50 -0400 > >> > >> Then I think using just one term is clearer and I agree with > >> Lars about avoiding "place" as much as possible. I think GV > >> would be a clearer parameter name than PLACE. > > > > That ship has sailed, unfortunately. > > I don't see why a ship has sailed on something without > compatibility issues like changing documentation. Because by now we have this terminology in gazillion places, and people are using it and are accustomed to it.