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: Systematic implicit aliases for option variables Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:08:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: <9F2080B9-A7FE-4E7B-9920-8368A9D6DEBE@gnu.org> <83sfs0k480.fsf@gnu.org> 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="17089"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 03 06:09:43 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 1nPdig-0004H7-PN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2022 06:09:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35446 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nPdif-0005kq-OE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:09:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36346) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nPdhC-00041V-S6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:08:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=44342 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 1nPdhC-0007db-JX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:08:10 -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=ARN08D3a0y/b0cYeCn/tK5eDdnf8GKd+Xtf2fDaQ3Is=; b=NJK2JVFx+Myf LAwofWYuTZwBX5kiCMSBIxvY4rZ8Suzbis5MRFmLsAcIh6+t23ZCqgtnDPPHxv8FcFZp5U89tIlp5 VnTGvkiHVW59eECTuU9q1LQEyO/DUlT5oDOpryu7iebdx52W3HRZ3mMMPeGs6GVMb9ow1a0fZQXf7 XbMEAujUuaKUcsI3hd3dxZO7ZNDnAmzIbOq4g2oE74lbOMgNe341w/j51cQn/x1j4dB2oq4m1JXHw HDj731x/ZDOpXEjth/PpU0RJGUmSdgOlgtzjM3E3pktr4TeWd5+mq+Vrio+fN8PJEohmvcb8UfMXb lMoiyTKTEFvf6fpP4fqYbQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nPdhB-0003UJ-LC; Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:08:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83sfs0k480.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 02 Mar 2022 13:01:51 +0200) 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:286776 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. ]]] > Yes, it currently only considers names. The idea is to extend it > consider aliases as well. For example, for each symbol it finds by > name, it could attempt to find its alias(es), and if found, show the > symbols related to those aliases as well. Similar to what you > suggested, but without a new command. It's worth a try. It doesn't do the whole job I had in mind, but it might do enough to solve this problem. -- 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)