From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: library/package filename prefixes Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 17:30:44 +0300 Message-ID: <83eerzojqj.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="75267"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 04 16:44:01 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jVcK9-000JT6-RN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 16:44:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52688 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVcK8-0005WR-Pz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 10:44:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47706) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVc7V-0007yq-1Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 10:30:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58906) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVc7U-0007Oh-IP; Mon, 04 May 2020 10:30:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4923 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jVc7K-0007NV-Gq; Mon, 04 May 2020 10:30:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Sun, 03 May 2020 23:08:47 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248826 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > 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.