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: RE: Document that symbol prefix "my-" (or other) should be left for users Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:01:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <18664dc1-aedb-4300-ad9d-d5bc9c363bc5@default> References: <87mvtekydf.fsf@mithlond.arda> <87egeqkwj2.fsf@mithlond.arda> <87mvtbinc3.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450206121 5040 80.91.229.3 (15 Dec 2015 19:02:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 19:02:01 +0000 (UTC) To: John Yates , Teemu Likonen , Emacs developers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 15 20:01:49 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a8uqy-0004pM-Kn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 20:01:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38752 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8uqx-0007J3-VB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:01:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37599) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8uqk-0007Iu-JN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:01:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8uqg-000736-H5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:01:26 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:44269) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8uqg-000732-9X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:01:22 -0500 Original-Received: from aserv0022.oracle.com (aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id tBFJ1KJ1014283 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 15 Dec 2015 19:01:21 GMT Original-Received: from userv0121.oracle.com (userv0121.oracle.com [156.151.31.72]) by aserv0022.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tBFJ1KaS029453 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Tue, 15 Dec 2015 19:01:20 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0014.oracle.com (abhmp0014.oracle.com [141.146.116.20]) by userv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tBFJ1J87022525; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 19:01:19 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:196325 Archived-At: > How about reserving '/' as the user prefix delimiter and '-' > as the package prefix delimiter?=C2=A0 Then Anton Wiegley's aw/foo > will never conflict with ace-window's aw-foo. Again, why? Why reserve any prefix for users? We haven't yet yet seen a reason. (This is quite different from key-binding prefixes, IMO.)