From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: `font-lock-add-keywords' works... sometimes Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 08:22:47 +0200 Message-ID: <838sxat688.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86sgvjjpeu.fsf@zoho.eu> <871s33q61a.fsf@web.de> <86ef72kdtb.fsf@zoho.eu> <87wokuqzc9.fsf@web.de> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="167765"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 20 07:33:39 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h6UnD-000hUm-CR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2019 07:33:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43614 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h6UnC-0005sN-E9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2019 02:33:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47897) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h6Umv-0005qA-To for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2019 02:33:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50648) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h6Ucm-00049G-M5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2019 02:22:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3874 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1h6Ucm-0004rX-28 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2019 02:22:52 -0400 In-reply-to: <87wokuqzc9.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Tue, 19 Mar 2019 23:22:14 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:119694 Archived-At: > From: Michael Heerdegen > Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 23:22:14 +0100 > > > BTW what is the proper "notation" for an Emacs major mode? Personally, > > I'm all ascii with lowercase and dashes, I even do that with my file > > system, e.g. ~/tools/torque-wrench or ~/fighters/juan-manuel-marquez, > > so I'd like to denote them (the major modes) for ex "message-mode" and > > "text-mode". But in the help (.e.g., `C-h M' when I type this) it is > > "Message mode", not message-mode, so I suppose I'm technically > > incorrect. > > I guess both are ok and no one cares. Most people seem to prefer the > lowercase version. C-h M just tries to be cool. The convention is to use lower case when referencing the mode as a Lisp symbol, and capitalized words without hyphens when talking about the mode in the documentation.