From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: code critique requested Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:57:20 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87eje6qt2a.fsf@laptop.shootybangbang.com> <87k5nxg9ym.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> <87ir3h5qao.fsf@moley.moleskin.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197435491 30373 80.91.229.12 (12 Dec 2007 04:58:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:58:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 12 05:58:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J2Jfp-0000Ec-Hx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:58:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2JfX-0007y0-RI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:58:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2JfJ-0007xP-5a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:57:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2JfE-0007vk-Ax for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:57:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2JfE-0007vc-5a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:57:44 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J2JfE-0002Lj-1K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:57:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1J2Jf0-0001Xr-DV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:57:30 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:57:30 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:57:30 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 (Macintosh/20070809) In-Reply-To: <87ir3h5qao.fsf@moley.moleskin.org> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50030 Archived-At: Sebastian Tennant wrote: > Quoth Tim X : >> jpw@pobox.com (John Paul Wallington) writes: >> >>> metaperl.com wrote: >>> >>>> (defvar *asciidoc-indent-level* >>> Sticking asterisks around special variable names is a Common Lisp >>> affliction that isn't done in Emacs Lisp. >> From the emacs lisp reference .... >> >> * In some other systems there is a convention of choosing variable >> names that begin and end with `*'. We don't use that convention >> in Emacs Lisp, so please don't use it in your programs. (Emacs >> uses such names only for special-purpose buffers.) > > Can anyone expand on this? When exactly should buffer names include or > not include asteri? I don't know about "exactly", but I think the convention is buffers that are not visiting files. (Not that buffer names have anything to do with variable names.) P.S. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/asteri -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA