Re: garbace collection of point-markers

[Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>]

Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net> writes:

> In article <87vg05yu6h.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com>,
> Pascal Bourguignon  <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
> >kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> >
> >> Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Note that in emacs, the reader does not
> >> > convert-case the symbols.  So (not (eq 'DONT-COPY-P 'dont-copy-p))
> >> 
> >> It seems customary to refer to the args of a function by uppercase
> >> names.  Type C-h f kill-buffer RET for an example.
> >
> >Exact.  But as a typographical distinction. Now that we have bolds and
> >italics and  fonts, perhaps they should  just be put in  bold and stay
> >low case.  When  you work with Common-Lisp in  addition to emacs lisp,
> >it's usefull to keep the distinction in mind.
> 
> Perhaps in Emacs documentation, but in Usenet you should limit yourself to
> simple ASCII.

What about _dont-copy-p_ or *dont-copy-p* ? (as viewed in gnus :-)

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