Re: narrow-to-here-document

[David Kastrup]

Tak Ota <address@hidden> writes:

> 26 Jun 2003 16:19:57 +0900: Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> > > This suggests we should use some other more general term instead.
> > > How about "literal"?  Any other suggestions?
> > > 
> > >     (defun make-indirect-buffer-for-hdoc (&optional change-major-mode)...
> > > 
> > > I suggest the name edit-literal for that function.
> > > We should not rigidly put all relevant entities into the function name.
> > 
> > I find the name `literal' not clear for the opposite reason -- it seems
> > too broad, and literal seems like a work that might have many other
> > potential meanings.  Since the crucial point is that it's a literal field
> > embedded in a buffer, how about something like `edit-embedded-literal' or
> > `edit-literal-field'?
> 
> It is a bit pity loosing the name 'here document' since its use is so
> popular that any other naming would be an indirect description of
> 'here document'.

But "here" is a particularly bad keyword for apropos searches.  I'd
rather recommend something like "embedded", in particularly since
"here documents" are only a small part of the equation.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum