GNU bug report logs - #24386
24.5; `read--expression' --> `read-expression', please

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 02:38:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 24.5

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 24386 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 24386 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24386: 24.5; `read--expression' --> `read-expression', please
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 16:45:12 +0200

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> Please consider renaming `read--expression' to `read-expression' and
> taking away its "internal" designation.  What it does is equally useful
> to ordinary Emacs user-programmers.

It does seem like a rather internal function (setting up eldoc stuff and
the like), so I think it's probably well-named as is; closing.

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