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: Comments on setopt Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 10:47:19 +0200 Message-ID: <83iltbz1ig.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871r05rr2r.fsf@posteo.net> <87a6esztjj.fsf@yahoo.com> <87bkz7wagv.fsf@yahoo.com> <87r17zo34v.fsf@yahoo.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6615"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, philipk@posteo.net, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 19 09:48:38 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 1nLLPw-0001Ve-TK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:48:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60250 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLLPv-0003wg-9D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2022 03:48:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:38534) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLLOr-0002sI-9z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2022 03:47:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=50376 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLLOq-0001vS-Qh; Sat, 19 Feb 2022 03:47:28 -0500 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=PJK5bB3Ac8T20y3DfiqLx+EMrXHdQPkJ8bPFL6eGX8s=; b=AmYig1ou7v6Y BSZh8s++zklXjkj2eeHxZl/Z39H4SdQQVJIfiiLS/ulLXvDQjgu8QCuRUbrvg3QziRtSD2gERGJxR YnxKnAzxMT4HbCQ4ZP2MVQa516nZjTOCHWN95zBs3jGUytLiHxFLFF9pDMZ9s6zjYF3vP2vfJaEVt QtDysInp32ZrssZlK75V4phmHGd+XP5tiaVohxmFydIwB4G665fHtkXMiK+qY8XjaMWWYdSezD2g7 X3kapuDEWxF/jg7b9qC4xOhSGq/GyYZ0Czw9RESnSmiCK0Wxt8SGS3CVpQLsSmhT04L4EVu7gkrn/ vTV86q6E2f0qjF9sJPx1zA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3291 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 1nLLOh-0001Ge-VI; Sat, 19 Feb 2022 03:47:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87r17zo34v.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Sat, 19 Feb 2022 13:07:44 +0800) 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:286457 Archived-At: > From: Po Lu > Cc: philipk@posteo.net, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 13:07:44 +0800 > > Richard Stallman writes: > > > > This macro sets a customizable variable in Emacs, it's not related to > > > `getopt'. Here is its definition: > > > Since it isn't meant for the command line options that `getopt' examines, > > the name `setopt' is misleading. (It already misled me!) > > This name should be changed to something longer and clearer. > > How about `set-custom-variable'? set-user-option is better, IMO.