bug#3314: 23.0.93; Emacs manual, node RegPos
Juri Linkov <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs |
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| Organization | JURTA |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
>> The reason for abbreviating some node names is to prevent the node's >> first line (in the Info file) from wrapping in an ugly way. > > Not a good solution, IMO. > > Even if no good solution for the wrapping problem could be found, it is more > important that nodes have helpful names than that wrapping be avoided. > > And a name can be helpful without being overly long. > > And this and the other node names in this section would not be longer than most > if named normally: `Positional Register' as a substitute for `RegPos' is not > longer than most other nodes. In your original bug report you wrote: Good node names let you find appropriate nodes using completion etc. However, the name `Positional Register' makes it harder to find all register related nodes using completion because it doesn't begin with a common word. Currently these node names begin with a common prefix `Reg'. So it would be better if they all had a common prefix that is a complete and clear word `Register': RegPos -> Register Positions RegText -> Register Text RegRect -> Register Rectangles RegConfig -> Register Configurations RegNumbers -> Register Numbers RegFiles -> Register Files I see no problems with this change because an Info "breadcrumb" line is still short, e.g. (emacs)Top > Registers > Register Rectangles and the header line will fit into 80 columns as well. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/