Re: Unhelpful text in C-h v search-default-mode

[Andrea Corallo]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 10:01:35 +0000
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
>> 
>> Incidentally, why do we need the long string of hex digits in the subr
>> names F616e....6461_anonymous_lambda_109?  These  are simply the ASCII
>> codes for "anonymous_lambda", and would appear to be utterly
>> superfluous.  They serve only to make it more difficult to use the
>> function name, or to talk about it, and they make the list-timers output
>> much wider than it need be.
>
> Let's ask Andrea (CC'ed) to tell why he decided to use this notation.

I believe it was just to have a unique name, for that probably at the
time I just used the C name.  I welcome patches to improve this if we
feel is important.

  Andrea