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changeset 9807:d5fa87d62d62
Add function and variable name conventions.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Tue, 01 Nov 1994 21:04:29 +0000 |
| parents | 7542dbfaea18 |
| children | 4c43c9dbe130 |
| files | lispref/tips.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/tips.texi Tue Nov 01 19:27:21 1994 +0000 +++ b/lispref/tips.texi Tue Nov 01 21:04:29 1994 +0000 @@ -74,6 +74,16 @@ @code{run-hooks}, just as the existing major modes do. @xref{Hooks}. @item +If the purpose of a function is to tell you whether a certain condition +is true or false, give the function a name that ends in @samp{p}. If +the name is one word, add just @samp{p}; if the name is multiple words, +add @samp{-p}. Examples are @code{framep} and @code{frame-live-p}. + +@item +If a user option variable records a true-or-false condition, give it a +name that ends in @samp{-flag}. + +@item Please do not define @kbd{C-c @var{letter}} as a key in your major modes. These sequences are reserved for users; they are the @strong{only} sequences reserved for users, so we cannot do without