From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lowercase aliases for Info-* commands? Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:50:21 -0500 Message-ID: <E1eGtxN-0004ms-On@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87y3n1gib3.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511214682 26992 195.159.176.226 (20 Nov 2017 21:51:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 21:51:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 20 22:51:13 2017 Return-path: <emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org> 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 <emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>) id 1eGtyA-0006Ku-GE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 22:51:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59927 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>) id 1eGtyH-00068D-Uk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:51:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41723) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <rms@gnu.org>) id 1eGtxR-000663-Ax for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:50:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <rms@gnu.org>) id 1eGtxQ-0005BS-6F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:50:25 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50714) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <rms@gnu.org>) id 1eGtxO-00059k-6a; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:50:22 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from <rms@gnu.org>) id 1eGtxN-0004ms-On; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:50:21 -0500 In-reply-to: <87y3n1gib3.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Mon, 20 Nov 2017 15:01:52 +0100) 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." <emacs-devel.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/emacs-devel>, <mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/> List-Post: <mailto:emacs-devel@gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel>, <mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" <emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:220316 Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/220316> [[[ 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. ]]] > Info mode defines a large number of interactive commands starting with > "Info" rather than info, which always causes me to miss them until I > remember the capital I. Would a patch creating lowercase aliases be > acceptable? The reason for this prefix distinction is to make completion of info- commands work better -- because the Info- commands do not get in the way. The idea is that the Info- commands will rarely be entered in M-x because they are bound to keys. We can change this if it will help users, but how and why would it help them? What is the scenario in which you type their names? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.