From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Corallo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unhelpful text in C-h v search-default-mode Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 15:19:48 -0500 Message-ID: References: <86frzlv6fy.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83tto15j1t.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40888"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , juri@linkov.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 29 21:20:42 2023 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 1rJJLW-000ASf-1p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2023 21:20:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rJJKh-0005oD-RI; Fri, 29 Dec 2023 15:19:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rJJKg-0005no-0C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2023 15:19:50 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rJJKe-0006y4-I4; Fri, 29 Dec 2023 15:19:48 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-Version:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:To: From; bh=RnhcP4/xgtgTXAyyhUzSxuAscKTnMqYHmCRr6dfCCKA=; b=JcUJcCWpL+Tz3fr3z4t+ lXbLNvJqP1Aqy5aacprQZNlLBcQsS7cit0Epo9nz2XC7uaA38HuykOOwr5/+2kZTmB8VozCdwnXoD mIE9gIVqGtncCRxOFD4C66zHcpzYPNGUOkfsW8a5waFFE7nrUqWlXTHgX3XWF4EZ1pJALOemPyzLa DyQaLumTFLdfZVOJz5fE+HYhUexLioDiFdBVOq5Q+aZDvl70zyZ1RNe2H/pki0xyJYYy5DGs8GDgG 3pS7Fz6FG+ExTlLt1EuzSItIpkuj9pfUJEIKkq3rwgFFdCftX0MNUC/lpedDdnymuvz2btBc31eVf tx2WlARAdFuwbg==; Original-Received: from acorallo by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rJJKe-0004aM-AX; Fri, 29 Dec 2023 15:19:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83tto15j1t.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 29 Dec 2023 13:45:18 +0200") X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:314343 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 10:01:35 +0000 >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> From: Alan Mackenzie >> >> Incidentally, why do we need the long string of hex digits in the subr >> names F616e....6461_anonymous_lambda_109? These are simply the ASCII >> codes for "anonymous_lambda", and would appear to be utterly >> superfluous. They serve only to make it more difficult to use the >> function name, or to talk about it, and they make the list-timers output >> much wider than it need be. > > Let's ask Andrea (CC'ed) to tell why he decided to use this notation. I believe it was just to have a unique name, for that probably at the time I just used the C name. I welcome patches to improve this if we feel is important. Andrea