From: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Files that begin with a period
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:32:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b0810200432w73739a2h5ba2228ecc5a9e0e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uvdvniker.fsf@gnu.org>
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 13:19, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> I'm okay with this change, but I think we shouldn't rename the
> constant. There's no need to, really, and doing so introduces
> gratuitous back-compatibility problems.
I'm quite agnostic about the names, but a *great* deal of the thread
was choosing appropriate ones, and XEmacs compatibility and prior art
were involved. Stephen J. Turnbull participated in the discussion and
was willing to add the function to XEmacs, IIRC.
Juanma
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-20 11:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-19 10:29 Files that begin with a period Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-19 13:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-19 13:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-19 20:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-20 9:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-20 11:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-20 11:32 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2008-10-20 12:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-23 18:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-23 21:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-24 9:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-24 4:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-10-24 10:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-20 9:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
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