From: Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Remove delete-overlay?
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:27:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87irdl3543.fsf@wigwam.brockman.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvejo9r1iy.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> I have some times looked at the doc string for delete-overlay to convince
>> myself that the overlay is not deleted by delete-overlay. It is just
>> removed from the buffer.
>
> I always felt like it should be called "overlay-detach" or something like
> that, but I also always felt like it was much too late to change its name.
Why not `detach-overlay'?
If all functions were named according to `TYPE-OPERATION',
what reason would we have to keep the `apropos' command? :-)
By the way, I agree with Lennart: while (to me) `delete' has
misleading connotations, `remove' is just right.
--
Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-01 5:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-28 21:47 Remove delete-overlay? Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-28 22:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-01 5:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-01 5:27 ` Daniel Brockman [this message]
2007-03-01 9:50 ` Miles Bader
2007-03-01 10:35 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-01 12:17 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-03-01 16:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-03-01 22:33 ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-03-02 3:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-02 3:28 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-01 8:14 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-01 22:43 ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-03-01 23:12 ` Miles Bader
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