From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: delete-other-frames Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 10:45:59 +0300 Message-ID: <83fupqd58o.fsf@gnu.org> References: <<57BC072F.9070704@gmx.at>> <<83k2f7fugv.fsf@gnu.org> <57BD63A9.8040502@gmx.at>> <<57BEB772.60100@gmx.at> <83inuoewjy.fsf@gnu.org>> <> <49a2a9c7-8573-4f07-897f-3eb444679d8a@default> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1472283970 14218 195.159.176.226 (27 Aug 2016 07:46:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 07:46:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 27 09:46:06 2016 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 1bdYJZ-0003CW-9f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2016 09:46:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35055 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bdYJW-0006oa-EP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2016 03:46:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43551) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bdYJO-0006oI-4Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2016 03:45:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bdYJI-0001p8-Ov for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2016 03:45:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34437) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bdYJI-0001ok-LQ; Sat, 27 Aug 2016 03:45:48 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4937 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bdYJ5-0003eX-7U; Sat, 27 Aug 2016 03:45:36 -0400 In-reply-to: <49a2a9c7-8573-4f07-897f-3eb444679d8a@default> (message from Drew Adams on Fri, 26 Aug 2016 23:31:19 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:206828 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 23:31:19 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > 2. I think Eli was talking about something different, but > related: the fact that in Emacs doc the name of a parameter > is often chosen to be a type name, and a convention is to > omit the type noun to which the restrictive appositive > applies and let the parameter name stand alone. Yes, that's what was on my mind. > IOW, if the name of the individual echoes the name of the > type then we can get by with just the individual name. > > Example: > > Just "copy FILE to DIRECTORY", instead of "copy file FILE > to directory DIRECTORY" (or the even heavier "copy the > file FILE to the directory DIRECTORY). > > And if there are multiple individuals of the same type > then we can use different names for them that each echo > the type name: "copy FILE1 and FILE2 to DIRECTORY". > > This is a kind of abbreviation, and it is fine too. Exactly. Thanks.