From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Files that begin with a period
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:07:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ur66bii5d.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0810200432w73739a2h5ba2228ecc5a9e0e@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:32:15 +0200
> From: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 13:19, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > I'm okay with this change, but I think we shouldn't rename the
> > constant. There's no need to, really, and doing so introduces
> > gratuitous back-compatibility problems.
>
> I'm quite agnostic about the names, but a *great* deal of the thread
> was choosing appropriate ones, and XEmacs compatibility and prior art
> were involved. Stephen J. Turnbull participated in the discussion and
> was willing to add the function to XEmacs, IIRC.
If compatibility with XEmacs is the reason for the renaming, the
proper vehicle for dealing with that is defalias, not a new name, IMO.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-20 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-19 10:29 Files that begin with a period Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-19 13:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-19 13:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-19 20:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-20 9:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-20 11:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-20 11:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-20 12:07 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-10-23 18:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-23 21:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-24 9:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-24 4:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-10-24 10:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-20 9:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
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