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: Unhelpful text in C-h v search-default-mode Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 13:45:18 +0200 Message-ID: <83tto15j1t.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86frzlv6fy.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30176"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: juri@linkov.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie , Andrea Corallo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 29 12:46:18 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 1rJBJh-0007cv-OW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2023 12:46:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rJBJ8-0002qF-7C; Fri, 29 Dec 2023 06:45:42 -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 1rJBJ2-0002px-GA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2023 06:45:38 -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 1rJBJ1-0002bF-9n; Fri, 29 Dec 2023 06:45:35 -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=e+WkTs9ter2Ve/JkUXdFRYv8suoYSldH3XZ9f0fybXo=; b=rZPH8gfQlFYL i72V0Q2Jv4pWDNvRFpE4Y/3yrDfyJGLvFB9DU6sxiXVlE/GOwl3mLksFZgI1gfTbl/a/3pgVUfKqV CAsUcQ916hIR/fXgzbcPMEPREoC2YgfG5xABu2kC0Rwsbp2hoZ6RvOZ7SckEnQ/PR5VSgIBPAj3JR pjsSyTKyOxXekUjtIS/Y0JSVlivGixLASe2rW9b5E/AzpdKymZfRWAUVN1vNSoJ6PNwX4rV0qbklY aTQr9w5PTZ+iMrsSDd2t024hcDxV6zhe/AwfrpmO8bPC8vAcGBy1aCDgNprOWpWyRtsabI3oUCR8E 2wQsuv2kM2uoZqAZGBSiFg==; In-Reply-To: (message from Alan Mackenzie on Fri, 29 Dec 2023 10:01:35 +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:314323 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 10:01:35 +0000 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Alan Mackenzie > > Incidentally, why do we need the long string of hex digits in the subr > names F616e....6461_anonymous_lambda_109? These are simply the ASCII > codes for "anonymous_lambda", and would appear to be utterly > superfluous. They serve only to make it more difficult to use the > function name, or to talk about it, and they make the list-timers output > much wider than it need be. Let's ask Andrea (CC'ed) to tell why he decided to use this notation.