From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Argument names in Elisp Reference vs docstrings Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:15:14 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1127150845 9774 80.91.229.2 (19 Sep 2005 17:27:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:27:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 19 19:27:15 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EHPNL-0007fC-H8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:24:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EHPNL-0004cy-2l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:24:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EHPKX-0003ti-5s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:21:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EHPKR-0003rN-Az for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:21:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EHPKO-0003m2-AU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:21:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [69.168.108.225] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EHPEh-00050A-W0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:15:24 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:15:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-reply-to: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:43078 Archived-At: [completions] doesn't quite fit for an alist, an obarray, or a hash table, or a function to test them. ... Regardless of whether the datatype is alist, obarray, hash table, or function, it represents an ordered set of completion candidates. True, but I do not think of it as a set of completion candidates. (I think of completion candidates as possible _text_ to save typing, like the word `typing' which I just got by typing `ty' and M-/ (dabbrev-expand).) I agree that the word `collection' doesn't tell us much, but I cannot think of anything better. -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc