From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: philipk@posteo.net, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Comments on setopt
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 23:12:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1nKBfn-0004NP-3J@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6esztjj.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Tue, 15 Feb 2022 11:40:32 +0800)
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> > - While I don't mind it really, I can imagine that others might object
> > to the "long" name, when compared to setq. Would a default alias like
> > "seto" or "setc" be worth it or not?
> I think setopt is enough. "seto" might be confused with oset, while I
> don't immediately see what "setc" is supposed to represent.
Setting a command line option is not especially common.
I don't think it calls for a name of only 6 characters -- if I were
choosing one afresh, I think I would choose `set-command-option'.
The only reason to use `setopt' is to for parallelism with `getopt'.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-16 4:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-14 23:01 Comments on setopt Philip Kaludercic
2022-02-15 3:40 ` Po Lu
2022-02-16 4:12 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-02-16 7:04 ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2022-02-16 9:52 ` Phil Sainty
2022-02-16 13:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-02-16 22:34 ` Phil Sainty
2022-02-16 22:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-02-16 22:57 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-02-16 7:13 ` Po Lu
2022-02-19 4:54 ` Richard Stallman
2022-02-19 5:07 ` Po Lu
2022-02-19 8:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-19 11:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-19 11:52 ` Mathias Dahl
2022-02-19 12:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-02-19 14:41 ` Name for `setopt` (was: Comments on setopt) Stefan Monnier
2022-02-19 18:31 ` Comments on setopt Philip Kaludercic
2022-02-19 23:42 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-02-15 9:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-15 13:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-02-15 17:20 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-02-17 11:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-15 17:17 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-02-15 19:22 ` Juri Linkov
2022-02-17 11:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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