From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Cc: 13276@debbugs.gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: bug#13276: 24.2.50; apropos-variable
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 11:35:19 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d6e32766-1017-43f6-934b-8d2f88411843@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<87fw2bh881.fsf@bzg.ath.cx>>
In Emacs, a customizable variable is called an "option". There is no
other kind of option in Emacs. The doc refers to such as options, as
do also existing commands and other functions (`customize-option',
`customize-apropos-options', `customize-changed-options',
`whitespace-toggle-options',...)
Emacs 24.4 has introduced the poorly named command and face
`apropos-user-option' and `apropos-user-option-button'.
Please rename these as they should be named: `apropos-option' and
`apropos-option-button'.
Everyone in this bug thread, including RMS, had agreed that the name
should be `apropos-option', but Stefan acted otherwise. This is a
bad decision. It just makes things harder for users, by confusing them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-21 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-25 5:35 bug#13276: 24.2.50; apropos-variable Richard Stallman
2012-12-26 11:10 ` Bastien
2012-12-26 16:56 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-04 1:40 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-04 7:54 ` Bastien
2013-01-04 17:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-04 19:03 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-05 10:25 ` Bastien
2013-01-05 17:52 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-05 19:11 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-07 22:04 ` Bastien
2013-01-08 4:31 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-08 7:15 ` Bastien
2013-01-05 23:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-07 22:04 ` Bastien
2013-01-08 14:11 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-08 14:33 ` Bastien
2013-01-08 14:38 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-08 15:48 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-08 16:05 ` Bastien
2013-01-08 16:56 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-08 17:53 ` Bastien
[not found] ` <<87fw2bh881.fsf@bzg.ath.cx>
2014-04-21 18:35 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2014-04-22 9:31 ` Bastien
2013-01-04 20:00 ` Richard Stallman
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