From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Add some aliases for re-related functions Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 22:48:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <7976B8C1-AFC7-4662-B750-6492EB70C0D5@gmail.com> <29721725-0696-4dcf-b5de-36924a5de259@default> <3777996c-7b3f-4d44-9636-f18aaff76a65@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="124000"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, casouri@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 05 04:49:29 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jVneD-000W8Y-EP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 May 2020 04:49:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38574 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVneC-00061T-GW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:49:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46060) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVndg-0005aq-Pz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:48:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45281) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVndf-0003Qv-V5; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:48:55 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jVnde-0005QY-V4; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:48:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Drew Adams on Sun, 3 May 2020 12:47:01 -0700 (PDT)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248927 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. ]]] > 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)