From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] timer-list -> list-timers? Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:28:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zi9u1xx7.fsf@udel.edu> <83vakik2ad.fsf@gnu.org> <874ls21ngq.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87poale8vj.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87d16ljqec.fsf@yale.edu> <87vakcyjt2.fsf@udel.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506018600 13309 195.159.176.226 (21 Sep 2017 18:30:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 18:30:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mark Oteiza Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 21 20:29:56 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dv6EU-00035i-TV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 20:29:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55045 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dv6Ec-00067c-Ae for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:30:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39658) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dv6Dd-00064T-6V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:29:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dv6Dc-0001RK-Bb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:29:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40264) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dv6DX-0001L1-Dv; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:28:55 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dv6DW-0007f5-Vf; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:28:55 -0400 In-reply-to: <87vakcyjt2.fsf@udel.edu> (message from Mark Oteiza on Wed, 20 Sep 2017 20:30:49 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:218647 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > >> That kind of bugs me about `M-x list-packages' etc. (there's a whole > >> bunch of them, like `list-holidays' and so on). Is there any rule > >> about when to make an exception to the `-function' naming > >> convention? If not, should there be one? The convention is that functions in a package (and variables) should have names which show their relationship to that package. Usually we do that by using the package name as a prefix, but that is not the only way to do it. It is ok to use the package name (or some form of it) later on in the name. So if there is a package called frob that works with things called frobs, it is natural and ok for it to contain a command 'list-frobs'. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.