From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
"'Bastien'" <bzg@altern.org>
Cc: 13276@debbugs.gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: bug#13276: 24.2.50; apropos-variable
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 06:11:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38E9A068A13749DC894603C55CC6D667@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvlic7dwtp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> > It renames `apropos-variable' to `apropos-option' and define a new
>
> I think it should be "apropos-user-option", but other than
> that, I'm OK with your change.
Too bad. That just confuses users more. The only options in Emacs are user
options. The name you've chosen hints that there are also non-user options.
We used the qualifier "user" for "user variable" because there are also non-user
variables. There, it made sense. We don't speak of "user faces".
It can sometimes be OK to talk about "user options" or even "customizable
options" in text passages, even though this is redundant (and could confuse for
the reason mentioned above), if we want to emphasize that these are thingies
that users can customize. If the text makes things clear, that's OK.
But to use this term in the name of the command is a bad idea, IMHO. It should
have been left as was originally suggested: `apropos-option'. In Emacs, an
option _is_ a user variable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-08 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-25 5:35 bug#13276: 24.2.50; apropos-variable Richard Stallman
2012-12-26 11:10 ` Bastien
2012-12-26 16:56 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-04 1:40 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-04 7:54 ` Bastien
2013-01-04 17:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-04 19:03 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-05 10:25 ` Bastien
2013-01-05 17:52 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-05 19:11 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-07 22:04 ` Bastien
2013-01-08 4:31 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-08 7:15 ` Bastien
2013-01-05 23:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-07 22:04 ` Bastien
2013-01-08 14:11 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2013-01-08 14:33 ` Bastien
2013-01-08 14:38 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-08 15:48 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-08 16:05 ` Bastien
2013-01-08 16:56 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-08 17:53 ` Bastien
[not found] ` <<87fw2bh881.fsf@bzg.ath.cx>
2014-04-21 18:35 ` Drew Adams
2014-04-22 9:31 ` Bastien
2013-01-04 20:00 ` Richard Stallman
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