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RE: what is the convention for `info' and `Info'?


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: what is the convention for `info' and `Info'?
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:42:55 -0700

Resending - no response.  Can one of the maintainers speak to this?  What is the
intention/design/convention?

> Library info.el has a mix of vars, faces, and functions with 
> names that begin with `info' or `Info'.  What is the convention
> here - when to use one or the other?  There doesn't seem to be
> any rhyme or (non-hysterical) reason.
> 
> There are internal vars and user options that use `Info'.  
> All defvars except `info-tool-bar-map' use `Info' (53/54).
> All defcustoms use `Info'.  But all
> deffaces (which are also for user customization) use `info'.
> 
> There are commands that use `info' and commands that use 
> `Info'.  Perhaps the intended difference here is commands
> within *info* and commands to be used anywhere (?).
> Similarly, there are non-interactive functions that use one or
> the other.
> 
> This cannot, AFAICT, be helpful to users (or to maintainers, 
> for that matter).




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