From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Add some aliases for re-related functions Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 17:21:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <7976B8C1-AFC7-4662-B750-6492EB70C0D5@gmail.com> <83lfmaqizs.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="51484"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Yuan Fu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 02 23:21:48 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jUza0-000DIO-Er for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:21:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59360 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUzZz-0007nf-Hb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 17:21:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52276) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUzZP-0006sv-FX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 17:21:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUzZP-0004Tq-2I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 17:21:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:51450) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUzZK-0004Do-7M; Sat, 02 May 2020 17:21:06 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id A0761100F40; Sat, 2 May 2020 17:21:04 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 14582100EE7; Sat, 2 May 2020 17:21:03 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1588454463; bh=sw3oc/qjrT5rFFhabwQqWml1phEQ1sZwrgTjeJDGaZo=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=nWn6n8kh23BcjXUZmZBMB60EihMFJndqISMbGgGxESzar0bCQtmu6TDxuYI+F+ts9 aB43lMUmfGDCegc8PoYxItAsTJ+rbwK58LpwO5YSPlfxSkGkwC+CJ4BwRgTvJ6AAT5 dCR0OmxHe3Az82h8BsQ2/q7tnNg9Tr9DRtgsaljn7lVzr12mfXwh6f6gKwxicG4Nt+ XA8HIL6puUGWxDDXEGgu9F4xJqNHENZuNOzuLycoiFIarko882wxa39xoehgNHiPjE ZqzH0+TfQms6zx5JmfBsYCSukxEeDNazy35fcy5rx7/rFLoR601nLOqDQuSKVV9Jge u97jcywWi8afg== Original-Received: from alfajor (unknown [216.154.3.202]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C0427120420; Sat, 2 May 2020 17:21:02 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83lfmaqizs.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 02 May 2020 21:39:19 +0300") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/05/02 16:40:06 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 132.204.25.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248583 Archived-At: > Is "re-" really a useful prefix? It's convenient. And as I explained a minute ago, I don't think we need to choose prefix which someone will "naturally" come up with. The important part is that the same prefix be used for all the related functions, so once you know the prefix you can find the rest. Stefan