From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henrik Enberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: checkdoc (was: mh-e 6.2 imminent) Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 01:58:36 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87fzukwzwj.fsf@enberg.org> References: <200210210726.g9L7QI1l014171@gbr.newt.com> <200210231948.g9NJmdBG015635@gbr.newt.com> <200210240725.g9O7PKI11467@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200210240928.g9O9Sjs12808@rum.cs.yale.edu> <5x65vsozso.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <20021024144551.GA9747@gnu.org> <5xsmyvolsh.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <5xvg3qyiqp.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <5x7kg4dcr7.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <87elaabbh9.fsf@enberg.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036199455 26029 80.91.224.249 (2 Nov 2002 01:10:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 01:10:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: storm@cua.dk, miles@gnu.org, monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, miles@lsi.nec.co.jp, wohler@newt.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 187moM-0006lB-00 for ; Sat, 02 Nov 2002 02:10:50 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 187mug-0006wp-00 for ; Sat, 02 Nov 2002 02:17:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 187mh2-0007Vf-00; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 20:03:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 187md9-0006Le-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 19:59:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 187md7-0006L4-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 19:59:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailb.telia.com ([194.22.194.6]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 187md6-0006Kr-00; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 19:59:12 -0500 Original-Received: from d1o1112.telia.com (d1o1112.telia.com [213.67.192.241]) by mailb.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gA20wtK6027987; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 01:59:08 +0100 (CET) X-Original-Recipient: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from rocksteady (h183n2fls32o1112.telia.com [213.65.65.183]) by d1o1112.telia.com (8.10.2/8.10.1) with ESMTP id gA20wsg13504; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 01:58:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by rocksteady (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2FBC037B70; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 01:58:52 +0100 (CET) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 29 Oct 2002 06:28:58 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9055 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9055 Richard Stallman writes: > I think it's pretty natural to end them with -face. For one thing, it > makes it easy to look up with apropos. And take something like > `font-lock-keyword-face', what would be a better name? the current > name is self-documenting. > > But we don't want to end all of them with `face'. It would be a pain > in the neck if faces like `italic' and `underline' ended that way. Those kinds on names are pretty common when it comes to typography, but names like font-lock-keyword or diff-added would be less clear. > Have you actually used this to look them up with apropos? Occasionally, when I was a newbie, though I didn't know about list-faces-display then. I think Miles idea about an appropos-face command sounds useful. -- Booting... /vmemacs.el