From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, "Kim F. Storm" <storm@cua.dk>,
rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs -Q not documented
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:31:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877jjgc9va.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x5is30glqr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Wed, 06 Apr 2005 13:58:36 +0200")
>>> Yes, --bare-bones or --no-frills seem like good candidates, too.
>> Since the option is primarily useful for debugging maybe its name
>> should contain the word debug.
> -debug-setup
My experience when programming is that functions shouldn't be named based on
what they're used for, but based on what they do.
I think the same should apply to command line options. Even if -Q is mostly
useful for debugging, that doesn't mean its name should mention anything
about debugging.
I think the current --bare-bones is a better name, so I think we should
close this discussion. We have better things to do.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-06 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-29 14:28 emacs -Q not documented Werner LEMBERG
[not found] ` <E1DH4IQ-00048v-Bw@fencepost.gnu.org>
2005-04-02 6:47 ` Werner LEMBERG
2005-04-02 9:58 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-02 11:02 ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-02 22:17 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-02 22:47 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-02 22:52 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-02 23:00 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-02 23:21 ` Henrik Enberg
2005-04-02 23:37 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-02 23:45 ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-03 21:20 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-04 22:12 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-04 22:13 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-05 7:31 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-05 9:27 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-05 10:04 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-05 10:27 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-05 10:40 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-05 11:16 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-05 13:22 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-04-05 13:44 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-05 14:05 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-05 14:09 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-05 14:44 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-05 14:53 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-06 3:02 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-06 7:14 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-06 7:48 ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-06 23:02 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-06 8:45 ` Werner LEMBERG
2005-04-06 9:28 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-06 9:47 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-06 10:47 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-06 10:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-04-06 11:58 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-06 13:31 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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