From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] timer-list -> list-timers? Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:17:31 -0400 Message-ID: <87d16ljqec.fsf@yale.edu> References: <87zi9u1xx7.fsf@udel.edu> <83vakik2ad.fsf@gnu.org> <874ls21ngq.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87poale8vj.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505925570 29184 195.159.176.226 (20 Sep 2017 16:39:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:39:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 20 18:39:26 2017 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 1dui22-0007NE-Js for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 18:39:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49705 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dui29-0004oa-Ua for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:39:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38944) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duhhC-000615-NG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:18:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duhgz-0007Jw-Ca for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:17:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=51908 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duhgy-0007ID-N8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:17:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1duhgo-0007oj-W7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 18:17:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:PRtTtm1S52wpVEwJbSLsei3H/HQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:218592 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 20:56:53 +0200 Lars Ingebrigtsen > wrote: > > LI> I guess I was just adhering to the `-function' > naming LI> convention. I'm all for renaming it to > `list-timers'. > > That kind of bugs me about `M-x list-packages' etc. (there's a > whole bunch of them, like `list-holidays' and so on). Is there > any rule about when to make an exception to the > `-function' naming convention? If not, should there be > one? I agree. These functions that don't follow the package naming convention are always hard to find. Wouldn't `timer-list-timers', `package-list-packages', `holidays-list-holidays', etc be better? -- Jorge.