From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, casouri@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: Add some aliases for re-related functions
Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 22:48:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1jVnde-0005QY-V4@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d77ea40e-db1c-4abf-b01c-068b20186531@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sun, 3 May 2020 12:47:01 -0700 (PDT))
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> With a command such as `flush-lines', if we want to
> prefix the name, just what is a good prefix?
One of the important considerations in many command names, including
'flush-lines', was the ease of specifying it using completion.
Too much prefixing becomes a practical nuisance.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-05 2:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-02 18:28 Add some aliases for re-related functions Yuan Fu
2020-05-02 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 18:43 ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-02 21:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-02 22:27 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-03 8:33 ` Michael Albinus
2020-05-03 19:07 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-02 19:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-02 19:48 ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-02 20:10 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-02 20:13 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-03 14:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04 3:09 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-04 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04 17:12 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-04 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04 17:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-04 17:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04 17:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 21:09 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-02 21:51 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-03 9:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-03 15:00 ` 조성빈
2020-05-02 22:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-03 17:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-04 10:07 ` João Távora
2020-05-03 14:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-03 16:20 ` Yuri Khan
2020-05-03 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-03 16:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 21:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-02 22:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 22:18 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-05-02 22:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-02 23:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-03 3:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-04 0:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-04 3:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-02 22:44 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-03 3:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-03 4:37 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-03 8:05 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-03 9:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-03 10:26 ` tomas
2020-05-03 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-03 19:47 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-04 7:32 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-04 8:20 ` Sending plaintext with Gmail (was: Add some aliases for re-related functions) Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-05-04 8:45 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-04 15:09 ` Sending plaintext with Gmail Stefan Monnier
2020-05-04 15:25 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-05-04 15:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-05-05 8:13 ` HTML display in Gnus (was: Sending plaintext with Gmail) Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-05-05 8:24 ` HTML display in Gnus Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-05-05 9:26 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-07-17 17:14 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-05-04 15:39 ` Sending plaintext with Gmail Andreas Schwab
2020-05-04 16:51 ` Add some aliases for re-related functions Drew Adams
2020-05-04 17:10 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-04 18:17 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-04 18:33 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-05 2:48 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-05-04 3:08 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-04 10:16 ` João Távora
2020-05-04 3:04 ` Richard Stallman
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