From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Pluim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lowercase aliases for Info-* commands? 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X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c09::229 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:220322 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > Info mode defines a large number of interactive commands starting with > > "Info" rather than info, which always causes me to miss them until I > > remember the capital I. Would a patch creating lowercase aliases be > > acceptable? > > The reason for this prefix distinction is to make completion of info- > commands work better -- because the Info- commands do not get in the > way. The idea is that the Info- commands will rarely be entered in > M-x because they are bound to keys. > OK > We can change this if it will help users, but how and why would it help them? > > What is the scenario in which you type their names? I was looking for the Info command to follow an info link. In this particular case, using the mouse would have worked, but I prefer knowing what's going on behind the scene. Anyway, seems like I'm almost alone in this. defalias in .emacs it is Robert