From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Kelly Dean <kelly@prtime.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rant - Elisp terminology is deceptive
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:15:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvoappuued.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mXBXpxhjBIyRxvcxGKdPMcai5a0wKO8nECrXiI5XzSa@local> (Kelly Dean's message of "Fri, 23 Jan 2015 02:59:12 +0000")
> Since ‟default” is already misused to mean «global», it can't be changed to
> mean «standard», since that would cause even more confusion. ‟Standard” can
> stay the way it is. ‟Buffer-local” can too. But please stop using the word
> ‟default” for «global»; use ‟global”. There's already precedence in Emacs:
> describe-variable calls it ‟global”.
I tend to agree. This "default-value" and "setq-default" dates back
to the very beginning of time, tho.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-23 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-23 2:59 Rant - Elisp terminology is deceptive Kelly Dean
2015-01-23 20:15 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-01-24 0:41 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-24 0:48 ` Óscar Fuentes
2015-01-24 3:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-24 8:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-24 10:32 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-24 11:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-24 10:30 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-24 11:03 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-24 23:24 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-25 9:16 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-26 3:52 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-26 8:28 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-05-22 3:44 [PATCH] Desktop mode saves mark-ring too verbosely Kelly Dean
2013-11-23 13:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-21 12:11 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-21 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-22 5:43 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-22 8:20 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-23 13:20 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-23 14:09 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-24 3:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-24 23:30 ` Elisp terminology (was: Re: [PATCH] Desktop mode saves mark-ring too verbosely) Kelly Dean
2015-01-25 9:49 ` Elisp terminology David Kastrup
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