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Name for `setopt` (was: Comments on setopt)
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Stefan Monnier |
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Name for `setopt` (was: Comments on setopt) |
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Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:41:41 -0500 |
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We've clearly entered bikeshed territory, so I'll just +1 here to what
Lars said.
Stefan
Lars Ingebrigtsen [2022-02-19 12:13:23] wrote:
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Since it isn't meant for the command line options that `getopt' examines,
>> the name `setopt' is misleading. (It already misled me!)
>> This name should be changed to something longer and clearer.
>
> You mean you thought this had something to do with getopt.h? I don't
> thing confusing `setopt' with that has potential to confuse many people
> writing Lisp code -- most people haven't heard of getopt.h, there is no
> `getopt' function in Emacs Lisp, and what would setting a command line
> switch even mean?
>
> The point is that we need a variant of `setq' for user options that
> people can use when saying `M-:' and in init files, so it needs to be
> short and snappy. `seto' and `setc' were proposed, but I thought those
> were too confusing.
- Re: Comments on setopt, (continued)
- Re: Comments on setopt, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/02/16
- Re: Comments on setopt, Po Lu, 2022/02/16
- Re: Comments on setopt, Richard Stallman, 2022/02/18
- Re: Comments on setopt, Po Lu, 2022/02/19
- Re: Comments on setopt, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/02/19
- Re: Comments on setopt, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/02/19
- Re: Comments on setopt, Mathias Dahl, 2022/02/19
- Re: Comments on setopt, Dmitry Gutov, 2022/02/19
- Name for `setopt` (was: Comments on setopt),
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Comments on setopt, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/02/19
- RE: [External] : Re: Comments on setopt, Drew Adams, 2022/02/19
Re: Comments on setopt, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/02/15