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RE: Add some aliases for re-related functions
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: Add some aliases for re-related functions |
Date: |
Sat, 2 May 2020 15:27:20 -0700 (PDT) |
> > Is "re-" really a useful prefix?
>
> It's convenient. And as I explained a minute ago, I don't think we
> need to choose prefix which someone will "naturally" come up with.
> The important part is that the same prefix be used for all the related
> functions, so once you know the prefix you can find the rest.
That's pretty much true whether `re-' is used
as prefix or is elsewhere in the name, as long
as it is set off using a hyphen. E.g.,
`nonincremental-re-search-forward',
`Info-following-node-name-re'.
(No, it's not always the case: `ange-ftp-re-read-dir',
`message-strip-subject-re'. But some functions that
use `re-' are anyway misnamed - should be
`ange-ftp-reread-dir', for example.)
Re: Add some aliases for re-related functions, Alan Mackenzie, 2020/05/02
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- Re: Add some aliases for re-related functions, Philippe Vaucher, 2020/05/02
- Re: Add some aliases for re-related functions, Philippe Vaucher, 2020/05/02
- Re: Add some aliases for re-related functions, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/03
- Re: Add some aliases for re-related functions, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/03
- Re: Add some aliases for re-related functions, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/04
- Re: Add some aliases for re-related functions, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/04