From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: skeleton.el _ versus @, a new patch Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 22:31:50 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200303242005.h2OK57gr013285@rum.cs.yale.edu> <1048554010.20622.66.camel@zircon> <200303311740.h2VHeZNG017518@rum.cs.yale.edu> <1049242082.66437.15.camel@zircon> <200304020020.h320K4de023432@rum.cs.yale.edu> <1049245381.66437.33.camel@zircon> <20030403084549.2a5aca76.occitan@esperanto.org> <200304091626.h39GQlwc000430@rum.cs.yale.edu> <1050020736.419.11.camel@zircon> <200304112359.h3BNxpw5012335@rum.cs.yale.edu> <1050879051.74664.17.camel@zircon><1050975058.74664.30.camel@zircon> <1051199987.572.9.camel@zircon> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051324453 23447 80.91.224.249 (26 Apr 2003 02:34:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 02:34:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 26 04:34:09 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 199FVx-00065Q-00 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 04:34:09 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 199Fcw-0000lU-00 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 04:41:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 199FWj-0000AH-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 22:34:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 199FVY-0007Yb-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 22:33:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 199FU5-0006WN-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 22:32:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 199FTj-0005gA-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 22:31:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 199FTi-0003ZZ-00; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 22:31:50 -0400 Original-To: Joe Kelsey In-reply-to: <1051199987.572.9.camel@zircon> (message from Joe Kelsey on 24 Apr 2003 08:59:53 -0700) Original-cc: dapfy@t-online.de Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13460 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13460 A skeleton is basically a list. Each element of the list is either a string, a piece of lisp code, a sub-skeleton list or something to be reinterpreted by skeleton-internal-1, basically anything that lisp allows as a list member. The only reason a bare - would occur in an existing skeleton is if someone was using it as a variable name for some obscure purpoose. It is quite unlikely that any existing skeleton has any bare -'s, the only use would be as parts of strings or character constants using the usual lisp syntax for such. In that case I see no harm in this change. Stephan, would you like to install it?