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: Comments on setopt Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 23:54:39 -0500 Message-ID: References: <871r05rr2r.fsf@posteo.net> <87a6esztjj.fsf@yahoo.com> <87bkz7wagv.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="28433"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 19 05:56:30 2022 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 1nLHnJ-0007Cr-R8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2022 05:56:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44940 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLHnI-00043N-E8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2022 23:56:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:52286) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLHlY-0002ld-1h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2022 23:54:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=47050 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLHlX-0002wI-Kn; Fri, 18 Feb 2022 23:54:39 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=N0Aw2YChMBOQiSdEb/uoWRrCAhcnLRWutA4pCwvCoY8=; b=OxOt/YpjnXC/ WwXXrZ2snWrZKc0NxfUWNDklcsIanGMNEIgQNQJt0idcPUrgoj4QwClsdGPSMSpFcrKC3c4LrLzR0 Xfc8ggQ7JqbD8qjNrFrY6SViIITvynx/GwDB610/seVkrB6lD5BtEZXulhRsALWJS/5+BH2mnhjyC BV4iW+xocq2SlN3iggwtSC7hhjmp+omQ4nn7n4/pq7Uo6IszbJN0/ittyTzwWUsl05KFgrZdKhFRX vCaGtLVBfyO2VqoWCnCrW/hxQnX43vFPJCIbXFXNZBNl4mtxD/fyvWhK2CuIGYuzzSzYsN3Mwfi+7 EA2w+Bsd7YWH0Enxub7ECg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLHlX-0004mn-Dq; Fri, 18 Feb 2022 23:54:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87bkz7wagv.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:13:04 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:286447 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. ]]] > This macro sets a customizable variable in Emacs, it's not related to > `getopt'. Here is its definition: Since it isn't meant for the command line options that `getopt' examines, the name `setopt' is misleading. (It already misled me!) This name should be changed to something longer and 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)