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Re: rx.el changes


From: Dave Love
Subject: Re: rx.el changes
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:39:37 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux)

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> However, we never capitalize file names or Lisp symbols.  If those are
> capitalized, it is a bug.

I know.  I don't think Gerd meant the messages to refer to the symbol.

> We don't have a custom of referring to rx.el with a name that we
> treat as a word; we don't refer to it often enough for that.

It seems odd and impractical to have a naming convention that depends
on how often something gets referred to.  I wasn't aware of it.

Anyhow, if the then Emacs maintainer got this wrong and it matters, it
clearly needs documenting clearly.




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