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bug#8368: 24.0.50; "temp" means "help" - rename or at least document
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#8368: 24.0.50; "temp" means "help" - rename or at least document |
Date: |
Tue, 1 May 2012 06:09:59 -0700 |
> The question is rather one of how to avoid
> confusing users when we have, for example, a `temp-buffer-setup-hook'
> and a `plain-temp-buffer-setup-hook' and BOTH get run when we
> invoke the inheriting macro.
I thought both what you proposed and what I proposed addressed this: rename
(alias) and deprecate the old, misleading names. Seems like we're going 'round
in circles now. I thought we (you & I & Stefan, at least) had already agreed on
a reasonable solution.
And I was pretty clear that the names are not what is most important to me.
What matters most is to have a macro that does only the non-help stuff, separate
from the macro that does also the help stuff. To repeat:
>> Probably we will need to leave the original name for the
>> current behavior, but if it could be aliased to something
>> with "help" in the name, and then the original name deprecated,
>> that would be better. (I think that's part of what
>> you suggest.) And create a new name for the
>> temp-without-the-help-stuff case.
>>
>> Whatever you decide will I'm sure be better than the hard-coded
>> take-it-or-leave-it situation we have now. And splitting the
>> two this way will also reduce any pressure (e.g., from users
>> like me) not to add more help stuff to the help-mode version.