From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
To: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: what is the convention for `info' and `Info'?
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:20:16 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ips8knkf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=mMzwnzbWk3vruyqKU8YDVNSVK+g@mail.gmail.com>
PJ Weisberg writes:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
>
> > Dunno about rhyme, but somewhere in space-time there is a comment to
> > the effect that use of the usual prefix capitalized reduces the number
> > of completions you have to deal with. Thus commands that are bound to
> > a key sequence and unlikely to be used with M-x have the prefix
> > capitalized.
>
> s/reduces the number of completions you have to deal with/makes some
> of the functions harder to find if you don't know they're there/
Not even the Emacs developers are perverse enough to consider that a
reason *for* doing something.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-14 23:20 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 [this message]
2011-06-14 22:00 ` Juri Linkov
2011-06-15 23:36 ` Richard Stallman
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