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Re: Files that begin with a period
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Files that begin with a period |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:07:58 +0200 |
> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:32:15 +0200
> From: "Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 13:19, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I'm okay with this change, but I think we shouldn't rename the
> > constant. There's no need to, really, and doing so introduces
> > gratuitous back-compatibility problems.
>
> I'm quite agnostic about the names, but a *great* deal of the thread
> was choosing appropriate ones, and XEmacs compatibility and prior art
> were involved. Stephen J. Turnbull participated in the discussion and
> was willing to add the function to XEmacs, IIRC.
If compatibility with XEmacs is the reason for the renaming, the
proper vehicle for dealing with that is defalias, not a new name, IMO.
- Files that begin with a period, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/19
- Re: Files that begin with a period, Stefan Monnier, 2008/10/19
- Re: Files that begin with a period, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/19
- Re: Files that begin with a period, Stefan Monnier, 2008/10/19
- Re: Files that begin with a period, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/10/20
- Re: Files that begin with a period, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/20
- Re: Files that begin with a period, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/10/20
- Re: Files that begin with a period,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Files that begin with a period, Stefan Monnier, 2008/10/23
- Re: Files that begin with a period, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/23
- Re: Files that begin with a period, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/10/24
- Re: Files that begin with a period, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/10/24
- Re: Files that begin with a period, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/10/24
- Re: Files that begin with a period, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/20