From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `font-lock-add-keywords' works... sometimes
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 08:22:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838sxat688.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wokuqzc9.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Tue, 19 Mar 2019 23:22:14 +0100)
> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 23:22:14 +0100
>
> > BTW what is the proper "notation" for an Emacs major mode? Personally,
> > I'm all ascii with lowercase and dashes, I even do that with my file
> > system, e.g. ~/tools/torque-wrench or ~/fighters/juan-manuel-marquez,
> > so I'd like to denote them (the major modes) for ex "message-mode" and
> > "text-mode". But in the help (.e.g., `C-h M' when I type this) it is
> > "Message mode", not message-mode, so I suppose I'm technically
> > incorrect.
>
> I guess both are ok and no one cares. Most people seem to prefer the
> lowercase version. C-h M just tries to be cool.
The convention is to use lower case when referencing the mode as a
Lisp symbol, and capitalized words without hyphens when talking about
the mode in the documentation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-20 6:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-19 7:26 `font-lock-add-keywords' works... sometimes Emanuel Berg
2019-03-19 14:42 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-03-19 16:51 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-03-19 22:22 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-03-19 23:37 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-03-20 6:22 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-03-21 14:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-03-19 16:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-19 17:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-03-19 22:09 ` Michael Heerdegen
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