From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: what is the convention for `info' and `Info'? Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:00:15 +0400 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <877h8oysy8.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <2F534BF7BCA34199A6EBCF37A4382914@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308088949 2956 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2011 22:02:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:02:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 15 00:02:25 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QWbgk-0002KW-Rq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:02:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50011 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWbgj-0007MC-Vn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:02:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59501) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWbgQ-0007LE-Hr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:02:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWbgP-0008Og-3j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:02:02 -0400 Original-Received: from smarty.dreamhost.com ([208.113.175.8]:45394) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWbgO-0008ON-PC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:02:00 -0400 Original-Received: from ps18281.dreamhostps.com (ps18281.dreamhost.com [69.163.218.105]) by smarty.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 811E66E805A; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:01:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (ps18281.dreamhostps.com [69.163.218.105]) by ps18281.dreamhostps.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD52451C2B2; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:01:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <2F534BF7BCA34199A6EBCF37A4382914@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:16:29 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.113.175.8 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:140469 Archived-At: > 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.