From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com,
stefankangas@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Shorthand variable named "elisp-shorthands" seems wrong
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 07:51:17 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o88cs1hm.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1mVMf3-0006WT-VH@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 28 Sep 2021 19:37:21 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> I think that "shorthands" is not the most natural term for these.
> Our usual term for this sort of thing is "abbreviation".
>
> I think `symbol-prefix-abbrevs' would be clearer.
I think `symbol-prefix-abbrevs' carries the implication that
`prefix-abbrevs' is some sort of cell in the symbol.
How about `read-prefixes' or `read-prefix-abbrevs'?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-28 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <87tui6twco.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2021-09-27 5:34 ` Shorthand variable named "elisp-shorthands" seems wrong Po Lu
2021-09-27 9:50 ` João Távora
2021-09-27 10:08 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-27 11:23 ` Po Lu
2021-09-27 11:38 ` João Távora
2021-09-27 11:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-27 11:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-27 12:02 ` Po Lu
2021-09-27 12:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-27 13:05 ` João Távora
2021-09-27 23:45 ` Po Lu
2021-09-28 23:37 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-28 23:51 ` Po Lu [this message]
2021-10-05 13:45 ` João Távora
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