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From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: Davis Herring <herring@lanl.gov>
Cc: Tianxiang Xiong <tianxiang.xiong@gmail.com>,
	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: alias `clear-buffer` to `erase-buffer`
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 18:54:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY3vq+Dp_xfigKiqK7OpqB+zN0h5Vvg=nHnVaWw0_mAM9g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFyQvY1UyTbJ0QXZjsCJ=iCk5sP30374xjHAaA7hihSv7v0vGg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Jan 25, 2017 7:45 PM, "Davis Herring" <herring@lanl.gov> wrote:

- `clear-string`
> - `clear-rectangle`
>

I'm not sure the analogy follows: these two replace a container's contents
with some sort of blank, but don't change their size to be 0.


+1 erase-buffer makes more sense.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-29 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-14 19:41 Proposal: alias `clear-buffer` to `erase-buffer` Tianxiang Xiong
2017-01-15  3:02 ` Richard Stallman
2017-01-26  0:45 ` Davis Herring
     [not found]   ` <CAFyQvY1Pefa5Ycx-LHnM2m_1ygMMwH_oveGTuj_r+Fc_M=y0Qg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <CAFyQvY1UyTbJ0QXZjsCJ=iCk5sP30374xjHAaA7hihSv7v0vGg@mail.gmail.com>
2017-01-29 23:54       ` Kaushal Modi [this message]

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