From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Brockman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Remove delete-overlay? Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:27:56 +0100 Message-ID: <87irdl3543.fsf@wigwam.brockman.se> References: <45E5F868.7000108@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172727021 26961 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2007 05:30:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 05:30:21 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 01 06:30:13 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 1HMdrn-0005MS-8p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:30:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMdro-0006vQ-FV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:30:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMdra-0006uE-IP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:29:58 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMdrZ-0006u2-W0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:29:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMdrZ-0006tx-SH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:29:57 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HMdrZ-0004SD-Fw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:29:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HMdr1-0003u4-9a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:29:23 +0100 Original-Received: from c-b1fee255.09-32-6c6b7013.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se ([85.226.254.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:29:23 +0100 Original-Received: from daniel by c-b1fee255.09-32-6c6b7013.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:29:23 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-b1fee255.09-32-6c6b7013.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se X-Face: :&2UWGm>e24)ip~'K@iOsA&JT3JX*v@1-#L)=dUb825\Fwg#`^N!Y*g-TqdS AevzjFJe96f@V'ya8${57/T'"mTd`1o{TGYhHnVucLq!D$r2O{IN)7>.0op_Y`%r;/Q +(]`3F-t10N7NF\.Mm0q}p1:%iqTi:5]1E]rDF)R$9.!,Eu'9K':y9^U3F8UCS1M+A$ 8[[[WT^`$P[vu>P+8]aQMh9giu&fPCqLW2FSsGs User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Efybe9pNA/F/vRdGzZHARtt3rmE= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:67105 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> I have some times looked at the doc string for delete-overlay to convince >> myself that the overlay is not deleted by delete-overlay. It is just >> removed from the buffer. > > I always felt like it should be called "overlay-detach" or something like > that, but I also always felt like it was much too late to change its name. Why not `detach-overlay'? If all functions were named according to `TYPE-OPERATION', what reason would we have to keep the `apropos' command? :-) By the way, I agree with Lennart: while (to me) `delete' has misleading connotations, `remove' is just right. -- Daniel Brockman