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Re: garbace collection of point-markers
From: |
Pascal Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: garbace collection of point-markers |
Date: |
01 Feb 2003 05:00:43 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net> writes:
> In article <87vg05yu6h.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com>,
> Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
> >kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> >
> >> Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > Note that in emacs, the reader does not
> >> > convert-case the symbols. So (not (eq 'DONT-COPY-P 'dont-copy-p))
> >>
> >> It seems customary to refer to the args of a function by uppercase
> >> names. Type C-h f kill-buffer RET for an example.
> >
> >Exact. But as a typographical distinction. Now that we have bolds and
> >italics and fonts, perhaps they should just be put in bold and stay
> >low case. When you work with Common-Lisp in addition to emacs lisp,
> >it's usefull to keep the distinction in mind.
>
> Perhaps in Emacs documentation, but in Usenet you should limit yourself to
> simple ASCII.
What about _dont-copy-p_ or *dont-copy-p* ? (as viewed in gnus :-)
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Re: garbace collection of point-markers, Kevin Rodgers, 2003/01/31