From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Comments on setopt Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 23:12:11 -0500 Message-ID: References: <871r05rr2r.fsf@posteo.net> <87a6esztjj.fsf@yahoo.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6378"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 16 05:13:52 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nKBhP-0001SZ-RL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2022 05:13:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48790 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nKBhO-0007kv-Dw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 23:13:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53230) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nKBfo-0006Kt-4X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 23:12:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=45178 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nKBfn-0002Rv-BM; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 23:12:11 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=t2dT/pgtiSuMyhyuIrmZH27i3bauHWJmIKqDebB5aGk=; b=g/Bl7bYHY485 /PhgAqY7vYMiuOOdcf9aHBYDDZz0PjIodPEvdCmbK/ejmzyGHkUuKxMwWplgoPrEpdb+KmIC/QI/A sWywR3HV717wOcCQ177gABs3C+qchjL4uKR50NG5AcC4ajjoj02iW6MvHDywHCkdFl3De9g5KfhnP LPg8OrlP0ZugsfnZLyFvZqQHmRy9nufLBkz9x/AS6FO/4+xk7Nnn5Dhw06LLpLM3Wo4rELdyjfSQA TKW/aOdlCr3/HXhUmh/CLjicQNXCnD25fuLLeyzpVdWns4dQH7i8pr1GCc1daBjlS9LxBmWdUrl3D NYcS8fNEdgHBqlSshBgMUQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nKBfn-0004NP-3J; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 23:12:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87a6esztjj.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Tue, 15 Feb 2022 11:40:32 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:286364 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > - 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'. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)