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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Rename `mini-' options
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 13:59:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000101c9d5a0$03917dc0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)

Names such as `resize-mini-windows' and `max-mini-window-height' are
unfortunate. They prevent you from easily finding them by looking for names that
include `minibuffer' or even `minibuf'.
 
Since when did `mini' start being used in option etc. names to stand for the
minibuffer? The only variable names with `mini-' are these two plus
`kmacro-step-edit-mini-window-height'. Obviously, given the last of these, the
name length is not of supreme importance. And there are *no* functions with
`mini-' in their names.

It would have been sufficient, if the name length were so important, to use
`minibuffer-resize' or `minibuf-auto-resize'. Similarly,
`minibuffer-max-height'. And `minibuffer' should probably come first in the
name: `minibuffer-resize', not `resize-minibuffer'.
 
We should change the names of the `mini-' window options and use temporary
aliases to ease deprecation of those names.





             reply	other threads:[~2009-05-15 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <AcnVoAMCDVZ2cc3/RpaKtCkusD8ZRg==>
2009-05-15 20:59 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-05-16  0:12   ` Rename `mini-' options Deniz Dogan
2009-05-16  0:21     ` Drew Adams
2009-05-16  1:47 Davis Herring
2009-05-16  2:11 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-16  2:22   ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-05-16  2:32     ` Drew Adams
2009-05-16  3:09       ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-05-16  4:20         ` Drew Adams
2009-05-16 10:04           ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-05-16 19:20             ` Drew Adams
2009-05-16 19:47           ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-05-16  6:43         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-05-16  7:13           ` Miles Bader
2009-05-16  8:24             ` Drew Adams
2009-05-16  9:21               ` Miles Bader
2009-05-16 19:21                 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-17  1:59                   ` Miles Bader
2009-05-16  9:18             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-05-17  4:10             ` Stefan Monnier

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