On Jun 26, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Štěpán Němec wrote:
"Eric Schulte" <schulte.e...@gmail.com> writes:
Štěpán Němec <step...@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
How come some of your rewrites above still use the `org-babel-'
prefix?
(As a side note, I don't see what Emacs guidelines suggest `ob-'
is more
appropriate than `org-babel-', and I would personally prefer to
retain
the latter -- it's much more descriptive.)
Štěpán
Hi Štěpán,
The guidelines I mentioned (I believe) specify that all file names
for
emacs-lisp files which are part of Emacs must be unique in the
first 6
or so characters. This is why all "(require 'ob-*)" lines (which
must
correspond to file names) now use ob-* instead of org-babel-*.
Since I
(like you) prefer the org-babel-* prefixes, those have been
retained for
all function and variable names.
I see. Hm... could you provide some source for that? The only
restriction on file names I can recall is this section from Appendix D
of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual:
* Please keep the names of your Emacs Lisp source files to 13
characters or less. This way, if the files are compiled, the
compiled files' names will be 14 characters or less, which is
short enough to fit on all kinds of Unix systems.
This is a restriction from the compiler.
However, Emacs wants to be installable on many systems, including MS-
DOS, which has only 8+3 character file names. Therefore, Emacs
requires that the names are unique in the first 8 letters - they may
be longer than 8, but they must be unique when shortened.
I cannot find the reference now, but I did explicitly ask a short
while ago and got this confirmed by Stefan Monnier.
Is that perhaps what you meant? In any case, I see that the
recommendation I quote above would make the file renaming necessary,
too.
(Also, I believe you actually did mention renaming *functions*, which
created my confusion in the first place -- cf. the commit message of
e0e4d76094f26 for example.)
Hope this explains it, I'm certainly open to other naming
suggestions.
It would make a lot of sense to at least still begin the file names
with
`org' IMHO, if at all possible.
This will not solve the problem, I fear.
- Carsten
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