Re: library/package filename prefixes

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 23:08:47 -0400
> Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> In your list, some of the files do use a two-letter name prefix,
> but others do not.
> 
> lisp/cedet/srecode/el.el does not.  Neither does
> lisp/cedet/semantic/sb.el.
> 
> lisp/emacs-lisp/pp.el does use a two-letter prefix.
> Perhaps we should change it.
> 
> lisp/emacs-lisp/gv.el uses a two-letter prefix.
> I expect that the functions named starting 'gv-' are not used from a lot
> of user code, so it should not be hard to rename them.
> 
> Does anyone oppose renaming them?
> 
> lisp/bs.el does use 'bs-' as a nane prefix.
> I have a hunch the entry points are not called very often.
> Should we rename that?
> 
> It would be easy to rename po.el and its one entry point,
> which is called in just one place.
> 
> Eli, what do you think about renaming these files
> if doing so is painless?

I see no reason to rename the prefixes of pp, gv, and po.  They are
all accepted acronyms.  Also, the consensus seems to be that re- is a
good prefix, so why not those?

If we don't rename the prefixes, there's no need to rename the files.