From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: lowercase aliases for Info-* commands? Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 08:06:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <87y3n1gib3.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511194048 18882 195.159.176.226 (20 Nov 2017 16:07:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:07:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: Kaushal Modi , Robert Pluim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 20 17:07:20 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eGobI-0004Dz-MN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:07:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58063 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGobQ-0005gC-2l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 11:07:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36506) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGoae-0005eY-SY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 11:06:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGoaa-0004mD-TW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 11:06:32 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:26992) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGoaa-0004lD-KF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 11:06:28 -0500 Original-Received: from userv0022.oracle.com (userv0022.oracle.com [156.151.31.74]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id vAKG6Q4l005295 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:06:26 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by userv0022.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id vAKG6Qee007316 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:06:26 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0008.oracle.com (abhmp0008.oracle.com [141.146.116.14]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.13.8) with ESMTP id vAKG6PUS011711; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:06:25 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 16.0.4615.0 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0022.oracle.com [156.151.31.74] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:220295 Archived-At: >> ObDamnTheTorpedoes: or rename them all, and create >> obsolete aliases using the old spelling? > > I'd love that too, +1 for consistency. I believe it was by design, to easily distinguish the main user-used things (command, options) when using completion - IOW, to filter out noise. That doesn't mean there couldn't be a redesign. But I don't see why we would obsolete the original names.