From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Files that begin with a period Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:07:58 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224528068 10163 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2008 18:41:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:41:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 20 20:41:52 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KrtZN-0001nO-NY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:09:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45515 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KrtYH-0003xY-WC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:08:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KrtYE-0003xL-6l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:07:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KrtYD-0003x1-5B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:07:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33705 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KrtYD-0003wy-0Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:07:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout3.012.net.il ([84.95.2.7]:57614) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KrtYC-0001ki-NN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:07:56 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.98.197]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K9100LL0DRLEG40@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:09:22 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:104681 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:32:15 +0200 > From: "Juanma Barranquero" > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 13:19, Eli Zaretskii 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.