GNU bug report logs - #57105
Naming of emacs-news-mode vs etc-authors-mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 09:48:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 57105 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57105: Naming of emacs-news-mode vs etc-authors-mode
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 05:28:36 -0700

Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> Then why isn't emacs-news-mode emacs-etc-news-mode?

Fair question.  Having slept on this, I think I prefer
`emacs-authors-mode' and `emacs-news-mode', to keep it simple.

To me the only point here is that they should share the same prefix.
People will understand that these modes are related to Emacs files given
the "emacs-" prefix, and if they don't they can always read docstrings.
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