From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: what is the convention for `info' and `Info'? Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:20:16 +0900 Message-ID: <87ips8knkf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <2F534BF7BCA34199A6EBCF37A4382914@us.oracle.com> <87k4cokre5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308093670 27337 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2011 23:21:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:21:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: PJ Weisberg Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 15 01:21:06 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QWcuw-0003o8-9V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:21:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35253 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWcuv-0000ca-AE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:21:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42492) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWcuB-0000XR-V4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:20:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWcuA-00058P-Fe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:20:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:34173) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWcu9-00057t-ON for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:20:18 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 375F03FA070B; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:20:14 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6E1791A316C; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:20:16 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.1.93a under 21.5 (beta31) "ginger" 6b3caa55668c XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.158.97.223 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:140473 Archived-At: PJ Weisberg writes: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >=20 > > Dunno about rhyme, but somewhere in space-time there is a comment to > > the effect that use of the usual prefix capitalized reduces the number > > of completions you have to deal with. =A0Thus commands that are bound = to > > a key sequence and unlikely to be used with M-x have the prefix > > capitalized. >=20 > s/reduces the number of completions you have to deal with/makes some > of the functions harder to find if you don't know they're there/ Not even the Emacs developers are perverse enough to consider that a reason *for* doing something.