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: [PATCH] timer-list -> list-timers? Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:49:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <87zi9u1xx7.fsf@udel.edu> <83vakik2ad.fsf@gnu.org> <874ls21ngq.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87poale8vj.fsf@lifelogs.com> 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 1505929794 24037 195.159.176.226 (20 Sep 2017 17:49:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:49:54 +0000 (UTC) To: Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 20 19:49:47 2017 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 1duj87-0005qw-I2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 19:49:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49998 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duj8E-0004bP-Uz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 13:49:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35336) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duj7b-0004Zn-Ag for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 13:49:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duj7W-0006IC-Fr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 13:49:15 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:24537) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duj7W-0006GS-5n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 13:49:10 -0400 Original-Received: from aserv0022.oracle.com (aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id v8KHn71p012914 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:49:08 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by aserv0022.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v8KHn7BL019416 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:49:07 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0004.oracle.com (abhmp0004.oracle.com [141.146.116.10]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.13.8) with ESMTP id v8KHn7NV002153; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:49:07 GMT In-Reply-To: <87poale8vj.fsf@lifelogs.com> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 12.0.6776.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] [fuzzy] 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:218597 Archived-At: > LI> I guess I was just adhering to the `-function' naming > LI> convention. I'm all for renaming it to `list-timers'. >=20 > That kind of bugs me about `M-x list-packages' etc. (there's a whole > bunch of them, like `list-holidays' and so on). Is there any rule about > when to make an exception to the `-function' naming convention? > If not, should there be one? It is a bad idea, in general, to use "list" as a verb in function etc. names in Emacs Lisp. Typically, a verb such as "show" or "display" does the job, with little or no ambiguity.