Re: C-x &

[Michael Albinus]

Drew Adams <address@hidden> writes:

>> No, I don't feel strongly about the command name. Yes, I understand why
>> you proposed "universal-async-argument". But I think its association with
>> `universal-argument' confuses more than clarifies. No, I don't have a great
>> suggestion for the command name. Ideally it should convey "read a key
>> sequence and invoke the command bound to it" (and the doc string would
>> explain that it will also read a prefix arg and pass that to the command).
>> Maybe `invoke-command-bound-to' or some such.
>
> Sorry; I meant to mention asynchronous execution.

The name "universal-async-argument" was inherited from
"universal-coding-system-argument", which implements a similar technique.

>> Ideally it should convey "read a key
>> sequence and invoke the command bound to it
>
> , in an asynchronous way"
>
>> (and the doc string would
>> explain that it will also read a prefix arg and pass that to the command).
>> Maybe `invoke-command-bound-to' or some such.
>
> But the command name should have `async' in it, somewhere.

"universal-async-argument" has it. And until we have a better name, I'd
like to keep it. It will be easy to replace the name by another one if
needed, and it isn't user visible in general.

Best regards, Michael.