From: Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>
Subject: Re: garbace collection of point-markers
Date: 01 Feb 2003 05:00:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y950ejkk.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: iRA_9.26$is4.1335@paloalto-snr1.gtei.net
Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net> writes:
> In article <87vg05yu6h.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com>,
> Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
> >kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> >
> >> Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > Note that in emacs, the reader does not
> >> > convert-case the symbols. So (not (eq 'DONT-COPY-P 'dont-copy-p))
> >>
> >> It seems customary to refer to the args of a function by uppercase
> >> names. Type C-h f kill-buffer RET for an example.
> >
> >Exact. But as a typographical distinction. Now that we have bolds and
> >italics and fonts, perhaps they should just be put in bold and stay
> >low case. When you work with Common-Lisp in addition to emacs lisp,
> >it's usefull to keep the distinction in mind.
>
> Perhaps in Emacs documentation, but in Usenet you should limit yourself to
> simple ASCII.
What about _dont-copy-p_ or *dont-copy-p* ? (as viewed in gnus :-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-01 4:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-31 8:49 garbace collection of point-markers Stefan Kamphausen
2003-01-31 10:10 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2003-01-31 15:18 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-31 19:51 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2003-01-31 20:17 ` Barry Margolin
2003-02-01 4:00 ` Pascal Bourguignon [this message]
2003-01-31 16:13 ` Barry Margolin
2003-01-31 17:21 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-02-03 18:04 ` Stefan Kamphausen
2003-01-31 19:02 ` Kevin Rodgers
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