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RE: get-lru-window should mention what lru stands for


From: Nick Roberts
Subject: RE: get-lru-window should mention what lru stands for
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 00:51:48 +1200

 > > Do you know what car or cdr stand for?  If not, has it stopped
 > > you from using them?
 > 
 > Good point, Nick. Let's change all Emacs functions to have incomprehensible
 > names - after the release, of course.

Actually my point was that even if you can't make the small mental leap as to
what lru stands for (which your first post shows you could), it wouldn't stop
you from understanding what the function did.

I see Eli has now added what lru stands for, but I hope he doesn't stop there.
I've always wondered who bobp is, and what's his full surname?  Ah I see now!
Perhaps to be clear we should call this function:

beginning-of-buffer-p

but wait the doc says:

If the buffer is narrowed, this means the beginning of the narrowed part.  So
perhaps:

beginning-of-narrowed-part-of-buffer-p

but then the user might not know what narrowed means in this context:

beginning-of-the-accessible-portion-of-the-text-in-the-buffer-p

Eli, could make those changes before the release?

-- 
Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob




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