From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Predicate for true lists Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 20:33:51 +0300 Message-ID: <838t6ol14w.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87fu3vdjjk.fsf@tcd.ie> <87bmcqhhsf.fsf@tcd.ie> <87in6xgtpb.fsf@tcd.ie> <2af892df-26cb-60b2-4fd8-067fcb3d32e9@cs.ucla.edu> <87r2kh9uwx.fsf@tcd.ie> <515ce169-8e88-4075-8a92-e8c1a496fe7d@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1530898316 31932 195.159.176.226 (6 Jul 2018 17:31:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 17:31:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: contovob@tcd.ie, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 06 19:31:52 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fbUaF-0008Av-ID for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 19:31:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59102 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbUcM-0003q9-Nr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 13:34:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54834) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbUcD-0003ps-Dp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 13:33:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbUc9-0003ZF-F2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 13:33:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36345) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbUc9-0003ZB-Bc; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 13:33:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2399 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fbUc8-0007iU-QY; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 13:33:49 -0400 In-reply-to: <515ce169-8e88-4075-8a92-e8c1a496fe7d@default> (message from Drew Adams on Fri, 6 Jul 2018 10:00:34 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:227013 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 10:00:34 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > 1. Why is "proper" better than "true"? I don't argue > against "proper", but what is really gained by this > change in Emacs terminology? Please go back and re-read the discussion that led to this patch, its URL is in the commit log message of the patch. Let's not reopen old discussions unless we have a good reason. > Dunno how helpful this is (perhaps not very), but it > purportedly shows how often "proper" and "true" appear > in print as modifiers of "list" recently: We will still have "true" in the manual and in the index.