From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Systematic implicit aliases for option variables
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:05:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1nPdeY-0002QE-7L@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB54884EB50BEBD1F02B88A69EF3029@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 1 Mar 2022 17:43:13 +0000)
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> That would come for free, I think, if we just
> aliased those options (like we do the commands),
> to let users see them also/alternatively as
> "occur" options: use prefix `occur-' for aliases
> of options that have prefix `list-matching-lines'.
Yes, that would work. But it would mean storing equivalent data in
multiple forms, which could get out of synch. If we could make
customize take note of the fact that `occur' is an alias, we would
not have to make lots of secondary aliases too.
--
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-03 5:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-01 4:24 Systematic implicit aliases for option variables Richard Stallman
2022-03-01 8:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-02 4:46 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-02 11:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-03 5:08 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-01 17:43 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-03-03 5:05 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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