From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Generalize and standarize dired-plural-s Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 08:12:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1474211591 25017 195.159.176.226 (18 Sep 2016 15:13:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 15:13:11 +0000 (UTC) To: Tino Calancha , Emacs developers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 18 17:13:07 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bldm0-0004NY-LW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 17:12:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50455 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bldly-0006JI-Tg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 11:12:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49535) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bldlP-0006J5-Vt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 11:12:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bldlH-0008UO-Cc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 11:12:10 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:20234) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bldlH-0008U4-1q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 11:12:07 -0400 Original-Received: from aserv0021.oracle.com (aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id u8IFC48C002315 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 18 Sep 2016 15:12:05 GMT Original-Received: from userv0122.oracle.com (userv0122.oracle.com [156.151.31.75]) by aserv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u8IFC4nl024056 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 18 Sep 2016 15:12:04 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0007.oracle.com (abhmp0007.oracle.com [141.146.116.13]) by userv0122.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u8IFC3ts027727; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 15:12:03 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6753.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:207556 Archived-At: > I am wondering if it has sense to add a standard function, > `string-plural-s', covering both cases: I), II). Then, we might do > `dired-plural-s' and alias for the new function. > We might update all the 'plularizations' in Emacs source code to use > the new function as well. What do you think about this idea? I'd like to see `format' extended along the lines of Common Lisp. http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/22_chc.htm