From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: what is the convention for `info' and `Info'? Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:36:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2F534BF7BCA34199A6EBCF37A4382914@us.oracle.com> <877h8oysy8.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308181519 28907 80.91.229.12 (15 Jun 2011 23:45:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:45:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 16 01:45:10 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QWzlk-0005ba-3M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 01:45:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50186 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWzli-0007kk-SJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58672) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWzd0-0005sx-FA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:36:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWzcz-0006AI-1e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:36:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:42022) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWzcy-0006AC-O1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:36:04 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWzcy-0003lN-Br; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:36:04 -0400 In-reply-to: <877h8oysy8.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:00:15 +0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:140528 Archived-At: 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-'. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/