From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Filename problem in CEDET merge Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:14:53 +0100 Organization: University of Cambridge Message-ID: References: <87fxbcvplf.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251461810 15560 80.91.229.12 (28 Aug 2009 12:16:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:16:50 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 28 14:16:43 2009 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 1Mh0Nl-00080D-W9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:16:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38664 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mh0Nl-00014y-8Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:16:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mh0MV-0000RT-Eg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:15:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mh0MQ-0000Oz-Me for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:15:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50033 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mh0MQ-0000Oq-IB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:15:18 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:33697) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mh0MP-00062C-LR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:15:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Mh0MN-0007dF-Nj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:15:15 +0200 Original-Received: from smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk ([193.60.95.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:15:15 +0200 Original-Received: from sdl.web by smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:15:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8Vf/Vukhn5O/ufmNKG3VfMWiM4s= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:114746 Archived-At: On 2009-08-27 23:50 +0100, Chong Yidong wrote: > Semantic, CEDET's parser library, contains filenames that look like > this: > > semantic.el > semantic-analyze.el > semantic-analyze-complete.el > semantic-analyze-debug.el > > These clearly break the 8+3 limit. In the past, we've dealt with this > by renaming files, e.g. shortening "semantic" to "sem", but even this > fails: > > sem-analyze.el > sem-analyze-complete.el > sem-analyze-debug.el It seems renaming is best way forward. However, The CEDET package has been in existence for over a decade and probably has long names for quite a while and yet no complaint has been made to its developers in that time. It seems premature to shorten the file names now. And the DOS folks most likely already have their solutions to what CEDET is trying to offer. Short names such as hilit for highlight create language noise. It appears to be a proper word but it is not. -- Leo's Emacs uptime: 5 days, 17 hours, 21 minutes, 40 seconds