From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs for everything? Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:00:01 GMT Message-ID: References: <87pt2ej98v.fsf@node1.ddorf.de> <87zn1g2t5j.fld@barrow.com> <876540gxzw.fld@barrow.com> <86brdqp4au.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> <87d5y3994r.fsf@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> <87hdnfbdek.fsf@lizard.king> <41A499D4.3000400@conectiva.com.br> <87fz2yk48o.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101592843 6299 80.91.229.6 (27 Nov 2004 22:00:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:00:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 27 23:00:37 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CYAcP-0006ms-00 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 23:00:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CYAlj-0004yE-76 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:10:15 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!torn!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!charlie.risq.qc.ca!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:90EbtKCf1ppsc9Xd0K3UcfPmke4= Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.24.84 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca Original-X-Trace: charlie.risq.qc.ca 1101592801 132.204.24.84 (Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:00:01 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:00:01 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:126976 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:22379 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22379 >>> keywords, especially for SQL) or some kind of electric space for Lisp >> For Lisp I'd recommend to use lowercase. It's more legible. > Code in tutorials and code printed by Lisp printer has uppercase > symbols. It's more natural for me to write lowercase but I found > a convention to write symbols that come from Common Lisp (i.e. not > defined by me) in uppercase. It was done in the past. Nowadays, Common Lisp code uses lowercase mostly. > It seems to be logical but OTOH I'm a Lisp newbie; Allcaps only makes sense when you don't have a choice: it's much more difficult to read (your brain has a lot more trouble making out the words). Stefan