>> split-string aliased as string-split
>> downcase aliased as string-downcase
>> upcase aliased as string-upcase
>> format aliased as string-format
>> concat aliased as string-concat

>Don't do this.  Just learn these 5 names, or use apropos, as
> has been suggested.

Just curious, if these were to be introduced today, would you also name
them that way? What possible genericity is there about downcase/upcase?
Okay they work on strings and on chars, but it's pretty clear their topic
is "characters" (string) no?


> Check out
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_stg_up.htm and
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/c_string.htm

> Do you think this organization would be useful? What if it had a cool
> font and some cool logos? :-)  I ask because that put me off at first, it
> looked mouldy.)

Yes, that'd be very useful and it's more or less what we are asking to be
able to do. Again curious, do you think they made a mistake when they named
it `string-downcase` there and not `downcase`?


>> s-truncate (len s)
> truncate-string-to-width (I got there with apropos truncate.*string btw).

Okay then let's alias that to string-truncate.


>> s-left (len s)
>subseq
>> s-right (len s)
> Add an "from-end" arg to subseq?

Why is there substring if there is subseq then?


>> s-repeat (num s)
> (cl-loop repeat num concat s)

What if I don't know cl (like I a significant number of package authors) ?


>> s-capitalize (s)
> capitalize,  also works for chars.

Alias it to string-capitalize :-)


>> s-reverse (s)
> reverse, also works for sequences

Ah, this one I didn't think worked on strings. Thought you have to split,
reverse then join. I agree this can be left as a generic algorithm.


>> s-contains-p (needle s &optional ignore-case)
> string-match-p

That can work, tho the mental path of having to do a regexp match while
regexp-quoting the string just to do a plain text search feels very
inneficient.


>> s-blank-p (s)
> ugh. nil is a string?

"is the string blank?" is a concept in many languages, but I understand it
can be surprising at first. The idea is that very often when validating
user input you filter for nil, empy string or trimmed string.