From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Too fine design granularity leads to numerous macro/function/command existed in Emacs. Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 17:15:45 +0300 Message-ID: <831r6xctwu.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22471"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 13 16:16:39 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mEXzD-0005bu-3Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 16:16:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53358 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEXzB-00048R-KN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:16:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59492) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEXyn-00045Y-08 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:16:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44282) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEXym-00069y-Oc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:16:12 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3879 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEXyk-00079k-A5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:16:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Arthur Miller on Fri, 13 Aug 2021 11:26:39 +0200) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:132503 Archived-At: > From: Arthur Miller > Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 11:26:39 +0200 > Cc: help-gnu-emacs > > Hongyi Zhao writes: > > > It's well known that Emacs has already implemented numerous > > macro/function/command in its current version. But it seems that this > > is caused by, to a certain degree, the too fine granularity, i.e., > > there are many functionally similar macro/function/command are > > designed separately, for example, `directory-files' and > > `directory-files-recursively'. The traditional Unix tool, `find', can > I wouldn't say that these are "very" similar. Sure they both list files, > but a recursive lister vs. plain lister is a big difference. The comparison of 'find' with the two Emacs APIs is basically invalid: 'find' is an _application_, whereas the 2 APIs are just that: APIs that could be used to build such an application. See find-lisp.el for what the application would look like.