From: Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
"kfogel@red-bean.com" <kfogel@red-bean.com>,
"monnier@iro.umontreal.ca" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Alexandre Garreau <galex-713@galex-713.eu>,
"tsdh@gnu.org" <tsdh@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: New package: resist!
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 20:44:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FDDAAA37-F03A-49FE-95EB-19A6A68F9BC0@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6h8mc69.fsf@posteo.net>
> On Dec 10, 2021, at 12:34 PM, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:
>
> Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu> writes:
>
>>> persist: it’s shorter, so shorter identifiers
>>>
>>> maybe even prsist
>> Sounds good. I’ll do prsist then.
>
> (I know this is bike-shedding, but...) What is the point of leaving out
> a single vowel? Doesn't using a "real" or at least pronounceable word
> avoid typos and make it easier to remember?
With completion there’re no other package starting with `prs`, but
there is `perl-mode` that also starts with `per`, so `prs` save 25%
of the key strokes in this case. But maybe it doesn’t worth it.
Another factor: prsist is obviously a fake word, but persist is a real *verb*.
persist-variable-* looks stranger to me (it’s obviously grammatically incorrect)
than prsist-variable-*.
Being said that, your argument is also sound and I don’t really have a strong
opinion on either of them. I’ll wait to see if there’s more comments. If not,
I’ll decide it using a random number generator.
Best,
Qiantan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-10 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-08 20:55 New package: resist! Qiantan Hong
2021-12-09 2:48 ` Karl Fogel
2021-12-09 6:59 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-12-09 7:57 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-12-09 8:05 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-12-09 8:09 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-12-09 13:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-09 9:15 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-12-09 9:25 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-12-09 9:36 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-12-09 20:37 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-12-10 18:25 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-12-10 18:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-10 19:15 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-12-10 19:24 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-12-10 19:27 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-12-10 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-10 20:19 ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-12-10 20:28 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-12-10 20:34 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-12-10 20:44 ` Qiantan Hong [this message]
2021-12-10 20:54 ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-12-10 21:11 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-12-11 4:08 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-10 22:17 ` Joost Kremers
2021-12-11 9:33 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-12-11 11:16 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-12-11 14:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-11 14:27 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-12-11 21:01 ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-12-11 21:13 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-12-11 21:26 ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-12-11 21:53 ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-12-12 1:05 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-12-12 1:18 ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-12-12 1:35 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-12-12 1:38 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-12-12 1:52 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-12-12 2:02 ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-12-12 2:11 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-12-12 2:18 ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-12-12 1:59 ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-12-12 2:56 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-12-12 6:42 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-12-12 1:30 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-12-12 1:33 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-12-10 21:04 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-12-10 19:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-10 21:08 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-12-09 13:56 ` Stefan Kangas
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