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Re: garbace collection of point-markers
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: garbace collection of point-markers |
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Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:17:18 GMT |
In article <87vg05yu6h.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com>,
Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
>kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
>>
>> > Note that in emacs, the reader does not
>> > convert-case the symbols. So (not (eq 'DONT-COPY-P 'dont-copy-p))
>>
>> It seems customary to refer to the args of a function by uppercase
>> names. Type C-h f kill-buffer RET for an example.
>
>Exact. But as a typographical distinction. Now that we have bolds and
>italics and fonts, perhaps they should just be put in bold and stay
>low case. When you work with Common-Lisp in addition to emacs lisp,
>it's usefull to keep the distinction in mind.
Perhaps in Emacs documentation, but in Usenet you should limit yourself to
simple ASCII.
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Re: garbace collection of point-markers, Kevin Rodgers, 2003/01/31