From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oliver Scholz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs Subject: Re: Double hyphens in variable names. Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 21:04:00 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310021318.h92DIWW05772@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065121624 32073 80.91.224.253 (2 Oct 2003 19:07:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 19:07:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 02 21:07:02 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A58mz-0002l7-00 for ; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 21:07:01 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A58mz-0007Ek-00 for ; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 21:07:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A58lk-0002Gc-3N for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 15:05:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A58lJ-0002F8-Ku for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 15:05:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A58kk-0001zH-9R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 15:05:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A58kg-0001vw-Rv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 15:04:39 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 771 invoked by uid 65534); 2 Oct 2003 19:04:33 -0000 Original-Received: from dialin-145-254-134-009.arcor-ip.net (EHLO HERMES) (145.254.134.9) by mail.gmx.net (mp014) with SMTP; 02 Oct 2003 21:04:33 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1497658 Original-To: Lute Kamstra In-Reply-To: (Lute Kamstra's message of "Thu, 02 Oct 2003 17:11:53 +0200") X-Attribution: os X-Face: "HgH2sgK|bfH$; PiOJI6|qUCf.ve<51_Od(%ynHr?=>znn#~#oS>",F%B8&\vus),2AsPYb -n>PgddtGEn}s7kH?7kH{P_~vu?]OvVN^qD(L)>G^gDCl(U9n{:d>'DkilN!_K"eNzjrtI4Ya6; Td% IZGMbJ{lawG+'J>QXPZD&TwWU@^~A}f^zAb[Ru;CT(UA]c& User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16887 gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs:1207 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16887 [Not directly related to the question about info:] I was always assuming that variables and functions with a double hyphen after the package prefix are supposed to be strictly internal. If that is true then either `imenu--info-alist' should not start with a double hyphen or it does not need documentation. I may be wrong, though, and the double hyphen means something entirely differen. Oliver -- Oliver Scholz 11 Vendémiaire an 212 de la Révolution Taunusstr. 25 Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité! 60329 Frankfurt a. M. http://www.jungdemokratenhessen.de Tel. (069) 97 40 99 42 http://www.jdjl.org