Re: [O] Name-space prefixes in ox- packages

2017-09-10 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Kaushal Modi writes: > On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 9:36 AM Nicolas Goaziou > wrote: > >> >> "ox" stands for "org-export-". This is so to limit file name size. Some >> systems are very limited (e.g. MS-DOS). >> > > Is that file name size that important in today's time? For some Emacs develope

Re: [O] Name-space prefixes in ox- packages

2017-09-09 Thread Kaushal Modi
On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 9:36 AM Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > > "ox" stands for "org-export-". This is so to limit file name size. Some > systems are very limited (e.g. MS-DOS). > Is that file name size that important in today's time? I'd be surprised if anyone using Org is using MS-DOS. But regardles

Re: [O] Name-space prefixes in ox- packages

2017-09-09 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Kaushal Modi writes: > I have observed that even though the exporter backend package names begin > with ox-, all the variables and functions inside still start with org-. > > Is there a strong reason to do so? "ox" stands for "org-export-". This is so to limit file name size. Some system

[O] Name-space prefixes in ox- packages

2017-09-09 Thread Kaushal Modi
Hello, I have observed that even though the exporter backend package names begin with ox-, all the variables and functions inside still start with org-. Is there a strong reason to do so? Or was that to prevent the older org-html, etc packages from breaking when they got renamed to ox-html, etc?