From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Rename `mini-' options Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 13:59:17 -0700 Message-ID: <000101c9d5a0$03917dc0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242421175 4330 80.91.229.12 (15 May 2009 20:59:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 20:59:35 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 15 22:59:29 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M54V6-0007JB-JT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 22:59:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44692 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M54V5-0001Kq-Ng for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 16:59:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M54V0-0001Kl-IT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 16:59:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M54Uv-0001J8-Tk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 16:59:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56903 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M54Uv-0001J4-Mf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 16:59:17 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet11.oracle.com ([141.146.126.233]:58888) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M54Uu-0000mq-Q0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 16:59:17 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by acsinet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n4FKxcuJ016309 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 15 May 2009 20:59:40 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt003.oracle.com (abhmt003.oracle.com [141.146.116.12]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n4FKxiZZ013110 for ; Fri, 15 May 2009 20:59:44 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/98.210.250.59) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 15 May 2009 13:59:10 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcnVoAMCDVZ2cc3/RpaKtCkusD8ZRg== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Source-IP: abhmt003.oracle.com [141.146.116.12] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A01020A.4A0DD7A0.000A:SCFSTAT5015188,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:110900 Archived-At: 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.