From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Subject: [drew.adams@oracle.com: Help on font-lock-add-keywords: APPEND is a poor name.]
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:57:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Ela8I-0007wL-CJ@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
I think it would be good to rename this argument to HOW.
Would someone like to do that?
Please don't change the special value `set'. I think that symbol is
good for the job.
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Both Info and the doc string for font-lock-add-keywords name the
optional argument APPEND. However, its possible values show that this
is a poor name. A better name might be HOW or WHERE. The values are:
- nil: add to the front
- `set': replace the entire current value
- other non-nil: append to the rear
Also, a better value than `set' for the replacement function would be
`replace'.
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2005-12-14 11:24 ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: Help on font-lock-add-keywords: APPEND is a poor name.] Romain Francoise
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