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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:254575 Archived-At: Slightly apropos the current thread opening discussion of things that could be done for emacs v28... Here's an example of an annoying and persistently vexing name-space inconsistency: to highlight based upon a regexp in a buffer, one uses functions from package hi-lock (that a lower-case 'i', not an 'ell') and to highlight the current line within a buffer one uses functions from package hl-line (that's an 'ell', not a lower-case 'i'). Unless you use both often (or have a memory superior to mine), you're bound to mis-type hl-lock or hi-line. Would the project consider aliasing and deprecating one of those name-spaces? Or breaking backward-compatibility and just refactoring one? =2D- hkp://keys.gnupg.net CA45 09B5 5351 7C11 A9D1 7286 0036 9E45 1595 8BC0