From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Insert character pairs Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 08:51:16 +0300 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87ekq0yc2z.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <87brlb1840.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87smeka7aj.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4096A229.4050301@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083650315 7462 80.91.224.253 (4 May 2004 05:58:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 05:58:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 07:58:28 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BKswm-0006GS-00 for ; Tue, 04 May 2004 07:58:28 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BKswm-000878-00 for ; Tue, 04 May 2004 07:58:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BKswB-0003w9-1r for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 01:57:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BKsuR-0002vs-5t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 01:56:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BKsry-0000wz-N0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 01:54:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.4] (helo=spork.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BKsrk-0000f3-8P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 01:53:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-34-218-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.34.218]) by spork.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14E6111DC20; Mon, 3 May 2004 22:53:14 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Kevin Rodgers In-Reply-To: <4096A229.4050301@yahoo.com> (Kevin Rodgers's message of "Mon, 03 May 2004 13:48:57 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22680 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22680 Kevin Rodgers writes: > Juri Linkov wrote: > > Maybe, a better name is `move-up-list' (however, not good since > > the word `move' often means `move the point') or `lift-up-list'? > > Yes, "move" would be misleading. > > > The command `promote-list' is basically opposite to `insert-parentheses', > > so another possible name is `remove-parentheses', but it is misleading, > > because it removes more than only enclosing parentheses. > > I don't find "delete" or "remove" misleading at all. "delete" or "remove" would not be misleading if they correctly indicated what is removed, but the name may become too long, e.g. "remove-parentheses-and-non-selected-text". Perhaps `rise-up-sexp' is a better name. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/