From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Dropping the dashes when displying command names Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 14:34:15 +0200 Message-ID: <83h6kv4iig.fsf@gnu.org> References: <_KCa7hG1yWNmsudi7IEVXqaPHv5UL6YTHaXRGo4P6JuRsO3QG20n0TbgJUmDRJVX6_22e0Jls3A_omOZTLNmIzNkHU2jJfs2D_me-zyv0c0=@proton.me> <25967.61333.961651.300698@orion.rgrjr.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23308"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rogers@rgrjr.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: reader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 06 13:35:04 2023 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 1rAr7H-0005do-IT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2023 13:35:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rAr6l-0002Bn-OC; Wed, 06 Dec 2023 07:34:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rAr6i-0002BY-5d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2023 07:34:28 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rAr6g-0005uk-TE; Wed, 06 Dec 2023 07:34:27 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=OIl5jbxcI9+a7astzboY87VH/7+8Sd9g8kEpLf/d4aw=; b=qx39b+NXDsoK jidaG+72536YWxfevFeXBk/mZbWLpv7I206hYxfJHhODuaUqW8MP2gnupcVZ4eKS3tkMZShX1WCn5 c7SaFX6P99mmAqaCtR+njeFUsqHgOtWY9rN+UONBuCddaaGfsGtdGAg7P9YXg3tAf/IVJSDdPYMdl fX0jPKxhpZihMj2LnANIvuU/r1FqsacHRUlmUgW3u961OB+t5nykpfidT3YmbC10iFOSJrobSH9jj XkkRWr0uV7Quf7JICpa06tMb6Xo/fKCv4wBPF5G56gbn7B5/AfYGlHvZBciHt67Hw9ZeOnMqa1azG KOHXMUSdKNmiViduBgAekQ==; In-Reply-To: (message from reader on Wed, 06 Dec 2023 06:40:58 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:313555 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 06:40:58 +0000 > From: reader > Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" > > > That is the way that Zmacs invokes M-x commands (with spaces, but using > > initial caps). > > Capitalizing the commands could make the presentation even nicer. > The commands in menubar menus are shown this way, so M-x should > follow suit, since M-x is also a menu which offers commands: "M-x" requires you to _type_ the command's name, unlike the menu-bar menus. So showing command names spelled differently than they are expected to be typed would be a disservice to our users. Even changing the letter-case is already a problem, since command names in Emacs are case-sensitive (and some packages actually use that to provide more convenient UX for typing command names -- see info.el, for example).