From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: what is the convention for `info' and `Info'? Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:57:38 +0900 Message-ID: <87k4cokre5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <2F534BF7BCA34199A6EBCF37A4382914@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308089263 4744 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2011 22:07:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:07:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 15 00:07:40 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QWblq-0004xb-VZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:07:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38786 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWblp-0000Gd-HT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:07:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48975) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWbcE-00064v-1A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:57:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWbcC-0006uy-HP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:57:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:56050) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWbcB-0006tb-Sf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:57:40 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83D743FA070B; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:57:36 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AFC9F1A316C; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:57:38 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.1.93a under 21.5 (beta31) "ginger" 6b3caa55668c XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.158.97.223 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:140470 Archived-At: 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.