RE: [ELPA] New package: transient

[Drew Adams]

> >> is it `multibyte-string-p` or `string-multibyte-p`,
> >> `file-name-absolute-p` or `absolute-file-name-p`, ... ?
> > Then "C-u C-h a WORDS..." is your friend.
> 
> Nope, way too slow.  I shouldn't have to do anything
> more than `str-mul TAB`.

In Icicles I type `C-h f str S-SPC mul',
and I get these candidates (all from vanilla Emacs):

 article-strip-multiple-blank-lines  (command)
 gnus-article-strip-multiple-blank-lines  (command) 
 gnus-multi-decode-encoded-word-string
 multibyte-string-p 
 read-multilingual-string
 string-as-multibyte 
 string-make-multibyte
 string-to-multibyte

And `C-h f file S-SPC abs' gives these (plus some
Icicles and Dired+ functions):

 file-name-absolute-p
 files--name-absolute-system-p 
 tramp-use-absolute-autoload-file-names

`S-SPC' lets you combine multiple patterns, with
no regard to the order of their matches in a
candidate.  Matching patterns `file' and `abs'
doesn't care which match comes first in the
function name.

(If you don't like to use `S-SPC' (and so be able
to match candidates that have SPC chars in them)
then just change that key to `SPC', comma, or
whatever.)

> BTW: I started doing that back in Emacs-21 with
> the newcomment.el package which tried to stick
> to the "comment-" prefix even for things which
> previously used a different name.

Oh, like `comment-make-bol-ws', `comment-quote-re',
`comment-string-strip', `comment-string-reverse',
and `comment-with-narrowing', which seem to have
nothing particular to do with comments, except that
they happen to be used to implement some code that
handles comments?

A package prefix is one thing.  A prefix that
advertises the type of thing that a function works
with is another thing.  Just what is the prefix
`comment-', here?