From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen'" <larsi@gnus.org>,
"'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 8569@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8569: 24.0.50; overlay arrow
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:07:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83E3520CB9334D6193D94A30CE1B82DE@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m362n3brzj.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
> I think changing this would be of little practical benefit,
> and would break third-party usages. So I'm closing this report.
As I said, you can keep the old names as well (aliased) and just not advertise
them or use them anymore. No third-party code would break in that case.
These misleading names are a source of confusion, especially for new users.
There is _zero_ reason that they should have `overlay' in the name. I hear no
one saying that the names are anything other than misleading.
One thing important about Emacs is that you can pretty easily find functions,
variables, etc. related to a given object type by just using `apropos'. Someone
looking for overlay stuff should not be finding these names.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-15 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-27 21:56 bug#8569: 24.0.50; overlay arrow Drew Adams
2011-04-28 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-28 17:53 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-28 18:17 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-15 13:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-15 14:07 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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