From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ryan Yeske Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rcirc update Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:33:04 -0700 Message-ID: <87ir9m9mxb.fsf@owie.lan> References: <871wgld7nz.fsf@owie.lan> <87r6ofppg7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87r6oca9fh.fsf@owie.lan> <87sl8ssg81.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87odjga3le.fsf@owie.lan> <87myyzsi91.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182123251 32461 80.91.229.12 (17 Jun 2007 23:34:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:34:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 18 01:34:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I04Fz-0005nT-SN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:34:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I04Fz-0008SC-Aq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:34:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I04Fu-0008NF-L1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:34:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I04Ft-0008LA-60 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:34:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I04Fs-0008Kw-W5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:34:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tor.primus.ca ([216.254.136.21] helo=smtp-04.primus.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I04Fr-0003PB-Na; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:33:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.90.176.154] (helo=owie.lan) by smtp-04.primus.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I04Fz-000626-DG; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:34:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87myyzsi91.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 06:26:50 +0900) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73194 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > Ryan Yeske writes: >>> Note that Elisp is case-sensitive... >> >> Hmm, that is true. I was following the convention that function >> arguments are capitalized like that... but for these keywords it >> probably is not the right thing. The way it was written before was >> difficult to read, this is probably not much better. > > I think the convention is to quote symbols like `blargh' (which can look > slightly ugly sometimes, but at least it gets the point across). > > E.g., see the docstring for `set-face-attribute'. Thanks for the pointer, that looks much better. Seeing that docstring got me thinking, should I use `:symbol' or just `symbol' for the symbols in `rcirc-connections'? (setq rcirc-connections '(("irc.freenode.net" :channels ("#emacs" "#rcirc") :nick "rcy"))) or (setq rcirc-connections '(("irc.freenode.net" channels ("#emacs" "#rcirc") nick "rcy"))) -- Ryan