From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 101f3cf5b9: Add support for user edits to VC command arguments
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 14:18:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qs3kt0l.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvbkr72w3x.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 22 Sep 2022 12:55:10 -0400")
Hello,
On Thu 22 Sep 2022 at 12:55PM -04, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> Robert Pluim [2022-09-22 11:25:31] wrote:
>>>> Sean> +(defvar vc-want-edit-command-p nil
>>>> Sean> + "If non-nil, let user edit the VC shell command before running it.")
>>>
>>> BTW, `-p` stands for "predicate", IOW *functions* that return booleans.
>>
>> I thought that in Lisp we often call boolean values predicates too, even
>> though that violates the usage of 'predicate' in mathematics.
>>
>> Is there some other convention for booleans like this one?
>
> Usually we don't need it because the name says it, like
> `vc-let-user-edit-commands`.
I'd be happy to change it to this (minus the plural) if you and/or
others would like.
--
Sean Whitton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-22 21:18 UTC|newest]
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2022-09-22 9:25 ` master 101f3cf5b9: Add support for user edits to VC command arguments Robert Pluim
2022-09-22 13:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-22 16:08 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-22 16:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-22 21:18 ` Sean Whitton [this message]
2022-09-23 6:39 ` Juri Linkov
2022-09-22 22:21 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-09-22 16:06 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-23 8:03 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-23 16:15 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-22 18:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-22 21:38 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-22 22:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-23 17:56 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-23 19:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-23 21:51 ` Sean Whitton
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