Re: name prefixes [was: epa command names]

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>]

Richard Stallman writes:

 >     Instead of allowing Emacs to flout its own guidelines,
 > 
 > My proposal doesn't violate any Emacs guidelines.

Yeah, but it will surprise anybody who is currently using those
commands with their mailcrypt definitions.  Not very nice IMHO.

In most cases, rather than use aliases users are allowed to pick the
implementation of `foo' by customizing `foo-function', and the "usual
implementation of `foo' either does

  (progn
    (apply #'foo-setup foo-args)
    (apply foo-function foo-args))

or

  (if foo-function
      (apply foo-function foo-args))
    ;; default implementation goes here
    )

This has the advantage that `foo-function' has a doctring (and often a
defcustom), and that documentation is pointed to by `foo's
documentation.