> So I do not want to make these decisions in a blanket fashion. > How about if you pick one of these groups of alternatives, > make the changes to standardize that group, and send the diff here > to be looked at?
I will send diffs for final reviews when most names will be basically agreed. > collection, table, alist > > I don't like "collection" very much. "collection" is used in the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual for the functions `try-completion', `all-completions', `test-completion' and `completing-read'. Perhaps a better name for this argument is "completions". > nospace, hide-spaces > > "nospace" and "hide-spaces" suggest different meanings. I don't know > how they are actually used, but it is possible that it is better to > keep them both. Both argument names are used for the same function `all-completions': "hide-spaces" is used in the docstring, and "nospace" - in the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. > history, hist > > The only possible reason not to change "hist" to "history" > is to save space. If the meaning of "hist" is as clear as "history", then it could be used consistently in other functions as well. > require-match, mustmatch, must-match, existing > > This seems like a good case to standardize, but it is possible > that there is a reason to use "existing" in a specific case. "existing" is used only in the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
