From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: what is the convention for `info' and `Info'?
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:36:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1QWzcy-0003lN-Br@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877h8oysy8.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:00:15 +0400)
I don't know what was intended by the original authors of info.el,
but I see the same pattern: `Info-' for commands within *info*
and `info-' for commands used anywhere.
I think the idea was so that the `Info-' commands would not get in the
way of completion when you type `info-'.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-15 23:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-10 19:16 what is the convention for `info' and `Info'? Drew Adams
2011-06-14 20:42 ` Drew Adams
2011-06-14 21:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-06-14 22:18 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-06-14 23:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-06-14 22:00 ` Juri Linkov
2011-06-15 23:36 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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