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Re: About `<prefix>--' (was Re: filenotify.el)
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Josh |
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Re: About `<prefix>--' (was Re: filenotify.el) |
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Sun, 30 Jun 2013 11:50:34 -0700 |
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> The downside of this is that it would require documenting all these
> functions in the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, which is already
> unwieldy.
What does "unwieldy" mean in the context of an easily searchable and
navigable hypertext resource like the elisp manual?
> It might be better for people to reinvent these as needed.
> Or put them in a separate category with the prefix `aux-' and document
> them in a different manual.
People are already reinventing such functions in large numbers today,
but I believe this is frequently not "as needed" but because we
wrongly believe it doesn't exist yet after failing to find evidence
to the contrary in the documentation and/or source code where it
would logically appear if it did. It seems to me that prefixing some
set of functions (which ones?) with "aux-" and documenting them in a
separate manual could only exacerbate this problem.
- About `<prefix>--' (was Re: filenotify.el), (continued)
- Re: About `<prefix>--' (was Re: filenotify.el), Josh, 2013/06/27
- Re: About `<prefix>--' (was Re: filenotify.el), Xue Fuqiao, 2013/06/27
- Re: About `<prefix>--' (was Re: filenotify.el), Stefan Monnier, 2013/06/28
- Re: About `<prefix>--' (was Re: filenotify.el), Xue Fuqiao, 2013/06/28
- Re: About `<prefix>--' (was Re: filenotify.el), Stefan Monnier, 2013/06/28
- Re: About `<prefix>--' (was Re: filenotify.el), Richard Stallman, 2013/06/28
- Re: About `<prefix>--' (was Re: filenotify.el),
Josh <=
filenotify.el (2), Michael Albinus, 2013/06/27