Re: *Diff*?

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > I find it a bit annoying that the diff buffer is called *Diff*, a
   > more logical choice is to call it *diff*.  Often one ends up
   > either editing the buffer, or using it various ways, much like
   > *mail* and other such buffers, the extra capital makes it a bit
   > harder to type.
   >
   > --- diff.el        06 May 2007 00:12:40 +0200      1.62
   > +++ diff.el        09 Jul 2007 23:10:14 +0200      
   > @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ With prefix arg, prompt for diff switche
   >                   ,(shell-quote-argument (or old-alt old))
   >                   ,(shell-quote-argument (or new-alt new)))
   >                 " "))
   > -   (buf (get-buffer-create "*Diff*"))
   > +   (buf (get-buffer-create "*diff*"))
   >     (thisdir default-directory)
   >     proc)
   >      (save-excursion

   Maybe, it would be good to unify buffer names, but I (and possibly many
   other users) have in .emacs:

     (add-to-list 'same-window-buffer-names "*Diff*")

   which is currently not case-sensitive.

   And also there are other buffer names with capital letters:

      ("*Help*" "*Apropos*" "*Locate*" "*Colors*" "*Buffer List*")

   Want to rename them too?

They are all quite different from *diff*, in none of those do you end
up editing the actual content (atleast, I don't); maybe an execption
can be made for *Locate*, it is similar to *grep*, or *occur*, which I
often edit to do various things on specific lines using macros.