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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'martin rudalics' <rudalics@gmx.at>,
	'Stefan Monnier' <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: option doc strings and Customize tags
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:42:50 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r65yc0yt.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000601c939e0$9422dca0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com>

Drew Adams writes:

 > That's the abbreviating I suggested. But I'd recommend eliding the terminal
 > chars, not the middle ones.

I think I'd want to see some data about that.  Specifically, I know
several places where there are very-long-prefixed-class-INSTANCE
families, and I'd want to know whether these are "rare".  I suspect
not, I think that's a pretty common practice in naming families of
manifest constants.

OTOH, Customize already generally strips group prefixes.  That might
be enough here, it may not often matter because abbreviation is rare.





      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-30  1:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-27 18:12 option doc strings and Customize tags Drew Adams
2008-10-28 19:09 ` martin rudalics
2008-10-28 19:28   ` Drew Adams
2008-10-28 19:38     ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-28 19:49       ` Drew Adams
2008-10-28 20:03         ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-28 20:25           ` Drew Adams
2008-10-28 20:29             ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-30  5:01               ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-10-30  6:06                 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-29  2:33     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-10-29  6:45       ` Drew Adams
2008-10-29 14:36         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-29 16:08           ` Drew Adams
2008-10-29 17:17             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-30  1:42             ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]

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