From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: what is the convention for `info' and `Info'?
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:00:15 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877h8oysy8.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2F534BF7BCA34199A6EBCF37A4382914@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:16:29 -0700")
> There are commands that use `info' and commands that use `Info'. Perhaps the
> intended difference here is commands within *info* and commands to be used
> anywhere (?).
I don't know what was intended by the original authors of info.el,
but I see the same pattern: `Info-' for commands within *info*
and `info-' for commands used anywhere.
> This cannot, AFAICT, be helpful to users (or to maintainers, for that matter).
It would be less helpful to users to rename them now to follow
another convention.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-14 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-10 19:16 what is the convention for `info' and `Info'? Drew Adams
2011-06-14 20:42 ` Drew Adams
2011-06-14 21:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-06-14 22:18 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-06-14 23:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-06-14 22:00 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2011-06-15 23:36 ` Richard Stallman
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