From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 8569@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8569: 24.0.50; overlay arrow
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:53:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EE98B8E35126450BAC7D2723C1314633@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zkna6zlm.fsf@gnu.org>
> > The overlay arrow is not something used all over the place
> > in Emacs code and doc. We should change the name now to
> > avoid this confusion.
>
> I'm afraid it's way too late. Most of these variables (the first two)
> exist since 1988, when this feature was first introduced into Emacs.
> Of course, back then we didn't have the fringes, so the arrow was
> displayed like it is now on text terminals (try "emacs -nw").
I'm well aware that it was introduced in the 80s. I used it back then.
It should have been renamed when overlays were introduced, but it wasn't.
It should be renamed now. It is not used that much, and the renaming would not
have much, if any, negative impact.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-28 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-27 21:56 bug#8569: 24.0.50; overlay arrow Drew Adams
2011-04-28 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-28 17:53 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-04-28 18:17 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-15 13:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-15 14:07 ` Drew Adams
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