From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Shorthand variable named "elisp-shorthands" seems wrong Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 19:37:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87tui6twco.fsf.ref@yahoo.com> <87tui6twco.fsf@yahoo.com> <87mtnytg6t.fsf@yahoo.com> <83wnn2kzmd.fsf@gnu.org> <83tui6kzcv.fsf@gnu.org> <87czoutedq.fsf@yahoo.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23422"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com, stefankangas@gmail.com To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 29 01:44:08 2021 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 1mVMlc-0005qN-GH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2021 01:44:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55526 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mVMla-0005jn-Ps for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2021 19:44:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60370) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mVMf5-0001dY-M5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2021 19:37:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34254) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mVMf5-00036x-Da; Tue, 28 Sep 2021 19:37:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mVMf3-0006WT-VH; Tue, 28 Sep 2021 19:37:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87czoutedq.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:02:57 +0800) 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:275747 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. ]]] I think that "shorthands" is not the most natural term for these. Our usual term for this sort of thing is "abbreviation". I think `symbol-prefix-abbrevs' would be clearer. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)