Re: About `<prefix>--' (was Re: filenotify.el)

[Richard Stallman]

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        [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example.

    It would be great if more of these generally useful functions were
    "promoted" from the libraries where they originated into the core of
    Emacs, stripped of package prefixes and properly documented in the
    Emacs or Elisp info manuals in order to make them more discoverable
    for use elsewhere.

The downside of this is that it would require documenting all these
functions in the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, which is already
unwieldy.  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.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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