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Re: Rename `mini-' options
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Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Rename `mini-' options |
Date: |
Sun, 17 May 2009 10:59:17 +0900 |
"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
> But that is not the case here. The doc string talks only about resizing
> `mini-windows', without ever giving a clue what a `mini-window' is. Might as
> well talk about resizing `thronbolts'.
Sorry, that's not true. "mini-window" is hardly an inspired term, but
despite being kind of ad-hoc, it's not a random word, and that makes a
big difference. When I first saw that variable, I instantly realized
what it probably meant.
[exactly why, I dunno -- maybe it's because "mini" ~= "minibuffer", and
hey, "-window", so it's that window... maybe it's just because
"mini-window" suggests a very small window, let's see... what on my
display is a very small window ... aha! -- anyway regardless of the
thought process, it worked on me.]
Now, maybe you were completely confused by those variable names, I
dunno, but I agree that if we can find a better terminology that makes
everybody happy, great!
>> Of course, it's not always to come up with a good term, but
>> I'm not sure what other term would be better. The terms you
>> suggested are pithy, but seem inaccurate.
>
> how is `minibuffer-echo-area-resize' inaccurate?
That's not the term you suggested; you said, in your original message:
> It would have been sufficient, if the name length were so important, to use
> `minibuffer-resize' or `minibuf-auto-resize'. Similarly,
> `minibuffer-max-height'. And `minibuffer' should probably come first in the
> name: `minibuffer-resize', not `resize-minibuffer'.
Such terms are inaccurate because they just say "minibuffer", which is a
something different -- a _minibuffer_ is the actual editable thingie
that is involved in user input.
That's why "minibuffer-window" is better: it doesn't refer to
minibuffers per-se, but rather to the window used to display them, which
is something different.
-Miles
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- Re: Rename `mini-' options, (continued)
- Re: Rename `mini-' options, Juanma Barranquero, 2009/05/16
- Re: Rename `mini-' options, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/05/16
- Re: Rename `mini-' options, Miles Bader, 2009/05/16
- RE: Rename `mini-' options, Drew Adams, 2009/05/16
- Re: Rename `mini-' options, Miles Bader, 2009/05/16
- RE: Rename `mini-' options, Drew Adams, 2009/05/16
- Re: Rename `mini-' options,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: Rename `mini-' options, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/05/16
- Re: Rename `mini-' options, Stefan Monnier, 2009/05/17