From 328e7cc475e3cd08fd72b71f985fcee6895e4c7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2021 13:27:34 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Remove mention of using defun- and defvar- as prefixes * doc/lispref/tips.texi (Coding Conventions): Remove mention of using defun- and defvar- as prefixes, as this is something that we rarely do in Emacs (bug#46899). --- doc/lispref/tips.texi | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/lispref/tips.texi b/doc/lispref/tips.texi index 4a7793a976d..36c68ee5ced 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/tips.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/tips.texi @@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ example, it is our convention to have commands that list objects named as @samp{list-@var{something}}, e.g., a package called @samp{frob} could have a command @samp{list-frobs}, when its other global symbols begin with @samp{frob-}. Also, constructs that define functions, -variables, etc., work better if they start with @samp{defun} or -@samp{defvar}, so put the name prefix later on in the name. +variables, etc., work better if they start with @samp{define-}, so put +the name prefix later on in the name. This recommendation applies even to names for traditional Lisp primitives that are not primitives in Emacs Lisp---such as -- 2.39.2