From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: PJ Weisberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: what is the convention for `info' and `Info'? Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:18:47 -0700 Message-ID: References: <2F534BF7BCA34199A6EBCF37A4382914@us.oracle.com> <87k4cokre5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308089955 8730 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2011 22:19:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:19:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 15 00:19:11 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 1QWbwy-0001ya-LL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:19:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36371 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWbwx-0001vi-5E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:19:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50400) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWbwj-0001va-E5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:18:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWbwi-0003LM-Is for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:18:53 -0400 Original-Received: from p3plsmtpa06-05.prod.phx3.secureserver.net ([173.201.192.106]:39235) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWbwi-0003L8-8U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:18:52 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 14575 invoked from network); 14 Jun 2011 22:18:49 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (209.85.161.41) by p3plsmtpa06-05.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (173.201.192.106) with ESMTP; 14 Jun 2011 22:18:49 -0000 Original-Received: by fxm18 with SMTP id 18so18918fxm.0 for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:18:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.223.54.219 with SMTP id r27mr173683fag.124.1308089927234; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:18:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.223.73.201 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:18:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87k4cokre5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 173.201.192.106 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:140471 Archived-At: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull w= rote: > 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. =A0Thus commands that are bound to > a key sequence and unlikely to be used with M-x have the prefix > capitalized. s/reduces the number of completions you have to deal with/makes some of the functions harder to find if you don't know they're there/ -PJ