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From: | Michael Heerdegen |
Subject: | bug#19461: 25.0.50; doc of `display-buffer-*' functions that take ALIST arg |
Date: | Sun, 04 Aug 2019 14:13:20 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes: > > Readers might then ask why it does not use the "--" notation. > > And the answer is the same as with all the other internal functions > that don't -- historical reasons. My opinion is: when calling the function from Lisp it is internal, but the name is public. It would look wrong if users would have to write "--" named functions in the ACTION argument. So it's better to avoid the word "internal" as in Martins suggestion. Michael.
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