André A. Gomes <andremegafone@gmail.com> writes:
> The project's documentation refers to headings and headlines as
> synonyms. Relying on a single definition would be beneficial.
Agreed. E.g. no more thinking waste about the question if it is
headline or heading?
+1
> If I had to choose between the two, I'd go with heading.
+1
+1
> If the community finds this valuable, I could prepare a patch.
+1
+1
@André
> There's a problem though. Function names would have to be changed,
> which would have to wait for version 10 otherwise we'd ruin backwards
> compatibility.
It doesn't have to break things drastically. When such changes are made, you would define function aliases using `define-obsolete-function-alias'.
And then that obsoletion warning is removed after a few years.