From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: what is the convention for `info' and `Info'?
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:57:38 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k4cokre5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F29C540BC79E4BE799F612216EEF2CD1@us.oracle.com>
Drew Adams writes:
> Resending - no response. Can one of the maintainers speak to this? What is the
> intention/design/convention?
>
> > Library info.el has a mix of vars, faces, and functions with
> > names that begin with `info' or `Info'. What is the convention
> > here - when to use one or the other? There doesn't seem to be
> > any rhyme or (non-hysterical) reason.
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.
Whether this consideration is still relevant I have no opinion, except
that the only Info command I use with M-x is Info-goto-node (which is
quite useful as an @ref in code, too). But there was a reason at one
time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-14 21:57 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 [this message]
2011-06-14 22:18 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-06-14 23:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-06-14 22:00 ` Juri Linkov
2011-06-15 23:36 ` Richard Stallman
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