From: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Add some aliases for re-related functions
Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 09:32:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGK7Mr4Bw2u6L4P3Ow9epen8a6CKvzz0BRn=aqUjopD9wKqFBQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d77ea40e-db1c-4abf-b01c-068b20186531@default>
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> [Again, please consider using plain-text, not HTML, in your messages.]
I try to do that each time, e.g this message should be plain text. Tell me
if it isn't. I reply from gmail and select "remove formatting".
> > You make it sound like because naming is hard
> > bad names are ok
>
> How did I make it sound like that to you?
By systematically showing examples where it's impossible and always
rejecting proposals. Also your tone while your say this kinda imply this is
a futile endeavor. Maybe it's just me misintepretating tho.
> If you look at the particular half-kidding examples
> I showed, you might see that they're not screwball.
> Nearly all of them are perfectly reasonable. And
> that's the point of showing them.
>
> With a command such as `flush-lines', if we want to
> prefix the name, just what is a good prefix?
>
> Is the command mostly about lines (the type of data
> acted on), so perhaps use prefix `lines-'?
>
> Is it mostly about regexp-matching/searching, so
> perhaps use prefix `re-'?
>
> Is it mostly about deleting text, so perhaps use
> prefix `delete-' (as in one of its aliases)?
First of all let's agree that nobody here proposed to rename flush-lines.
Anyway, if we had to do it I think all your categories are weak IMHO, sure
it touches the concept of lines, regexp and deleting but fundamentally it's
about modifying buffers. If I had to name it it'd be:
keep-lines -> buffer-keep-lines
flush-lines -> buffer-flush-lines
With more finesse I could argue for `buffer-modif-select` and
`buffer-modif-reject` but I'd probably lose you ;-)
Philippe
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Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-02 18:28 Add some aliases for re-related functions Yuan Fu
2020-05-02 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 18:43 ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-02 21:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-02 22:27 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-03 8:33 ` Michael Albinus
2020-05-03 19:07 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-02 19:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-02 19:48 ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-02 20:10 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-02 20:13 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-03 14:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04 3:09 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-04 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04 17:12 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-04 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04 17:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-04 17:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04 17:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 21:09 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-02 21:51 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-03 9:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-03 15:00 ` 조성빈
2020-05-02 22:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-03 17:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-04 10:07 ` João Távora
2020-05-03 14:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-03 16:20 ` Yuri Khan
2020-05-03 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-03 16:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 21:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-02 22:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 22:18 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-05-02 22:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-02 23:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-03 3:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-04 0:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-04 3:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-02 22:44 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-03 3:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-03 4:37 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-03 8:05 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-03 9:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-03 10:26 ` tomas
2020-05-03 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-03 19:47 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-04 7:32 ` Philippe Vaucher [this message]
2020-05-04 8:20 ` Sending plaintext with Gmail (was: Add some aliases for re-related functions) Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-05-04 8:45 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-04 15:09 ` Sending plaintext with Gmail Stefan Monnier
2020-05-04 15:25 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-05-04 15:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-05-05 8:13 ` HTML display in Gnus (was: Sending plaintext with Gmail) Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-05-05 8:24 ` HTML display in Gnus Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-05-05 9:26 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-07-17 17:14 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-05-04 15:39 ` Sending plaintext with Gmail Andreas Schwab
2020-05-04 16:51 ` Add some aliases for re-related functions Drew Adams
2020-05-04 17:10 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-04 18:17 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-04 18:33 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-05 2:48 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-04 3:08 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-04 10:16 ` João Távora
2020-05-04 3:04 ` Richard Stallman
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