From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: garbace collection of point-markers Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:17:18 GMT Organization: Genuity, Woburn, MA Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <62ede926.0301310049.17611c1a@posting.google.com> <87znphzl2d.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <84bs1xe4a6.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <87vg05yu6h.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044045093 8523 80.91.224.249 (31 Jan 2003 20:31:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:31:33 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ehob-0002CG-00 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:31:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ehfG-0007ym-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:21:30 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!paloalto-snr1.gtei.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: never X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test72 (19 April 1999) Originator: barmar@genuity.net (Barry Margolin) Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: /Kw5eDLPib17apz7+BfMAg4Nu2hhyRbly+9tXnhcinT+GpGO4smibjC4CDreCXT+cHf5dl760146!GHwMoBQIEX5uki2T0iVf2vq3CULwnJAPkDgf+tgV0bNwxgDpnNys5SSJBGSv1s3t2rTOoTVbMonD!xhO8fH7tpKioiQ== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@gte.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:17:18 GMT Original-Distribution: world Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109668 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6183 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6183 In article <87vg05yu6h.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com>, Pascal Bourguignon wrote: >kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes: > >> Pascal Bourguignon 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. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net Genuity, Woburn, MA *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups. Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.