From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH] timer-list -> list-timers?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:49:06 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f9fab9fd-aa23-475b-be61-7bf34e85ea52@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87poale8vj.fsf@lifelogs.com>
> LI> I guess I was just adhering to the `<package>-function' naming
> LI> convention. I'm all for renaming it to `list-timers'.
>
> That kind of bugs me about `M-x list-packages' etc. (there's a whole
> bunch of them, like `list-holidays' and so on). Is there any rule about
> when to make an exception to the `<package>-function' naming convention?
> If not, should there be one?
It is a bad idea, in general, to use "list" as a verb in function
etc. names in Emacs Lisp. Typically, a verb such as "show" or
"display" does the job, with little or no ambiguity.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-20 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-16 15:11 [PATCH] timer-list -> list-timers? Mark Oteiza
2017-09-16 15:31 ` raman
2017-09-16 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-16 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-16 18:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-09-17 3:13 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-19 23:39 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-20 11:41 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-20 14:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-09-20 16:17 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2017-09-20 18:52 ` Tom Tromey
2017-09-20 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-20 22:29 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2017-09-21 0:32 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-21 14:24 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-09-21 14:35 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2017-09-21 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-21 0:30 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-21 18:28 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-20 17:49 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2017-09-21 18:26 ` Richard Stallman
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