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Re: Unhelpful text in C-h v search-default-mode
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Unhelpful text in C-h v search-default-mode |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Dec 2023 13:45:18 +0200 |
> 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.