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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).