Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 02.05.2020 19:04, João Távora wrote:

> But the more I think about it the more I think it's a bad name.  I would
> never use it, it's so long. concat is concat. It's not His Excellence
> Concatenatious the Third. Learning names of variables and functions
> is the easiest and most fun part of programming anyway. You use format
> until you stumble upon it. And I hope you don't want to rename it
> string-format.

'format' is a well-known name on its own, across many languages.

> > BTW, does 'flex' not care about whether the match is in the beginning of
> > the string? Only about the gaps and the string's length?
>
> I think so, yes.  I remember thinking about that and come to the conclusion
> that the beginning is no more important than the end.

Consider completions for C-h f file-name-.

Don't you think it would be better to sort file-name-directory before 
backup-file-name-p?

Or file-name-sans-extension before help-C-file-name.

> > > My position is: work on the manual.  Make it prettier, better organized,
> > > etc.
> > > Parsimoniously add new names if that really helps.
> > It might take another 5-10 years before I start using the manual regularly.
>
> We should start by reading the time-traveller's handbook, then.

No need. Just ask a time traveller's really.

> No really, I'm curious. Why don't _you_ use the manual.  Do you read
> any manuals?

Very rarely. It's like a separate skill which I never put effort into 
mastering to an automatic level. The fact that we've had multiple 
disagreements about how the documentation should be written doesn't help 
either.

> I'm like 50-50%, honestly I'll open the Elisp info node
> and just C-s from there, then search around.

That's still slower than using completion.

> But sometimes I'll
> use google and C-h f.

Yup. Most users will use Google anyway, because that's #1 thing they know.