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authorLars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>2021-03-06 13:27:34 +0100
committerLars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>2021-03-06 13:27:34 +0100
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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).
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@@ -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