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Re: master a9f147a: Use the full name of the null byte/character, not it


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: master a9f147a: Use the full name of the null byte/character, not its abbreviation
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:05:06 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> -@xref{Lisp and Coding Systems, inhibit-nul-byte-detection}.
> +@xref{Lisp and Coding Systems, inhibit-null-byte-detection}.

I think this patch is ill-advised.

AFAIK "NULL" is a pointer of zero value, whereas the byte/char of zero
value is called "NUL", so if we want to make a change it should be from
"null-byte" to "nul-byte", not the other way around.

Especially since:

    % grep '\<nul\>' etc/NEWS*
    etc/NEWS.27:** 'inhibit-null-byte-detection' is renamed to 
'inhibit-nul-byte-detection'.
    % 


-- Stefan




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