Re: edit-utils/crm.el (completing-read-multiple) in XEmacs

On Thu, Oct 27 2005, Ben Wing wrote: Probably it would make (future) syncing with Emacs more easy if you'd put `minibuffer-prompt-end' in some basic package or into the core lisp files (adding a dependency on ilisp probably isn't a good idea). `minibuffer-prompt-end' is used in the following files in Emacs 22 (CVS): $ grep -l minibuffer-prompt-end *.el */*.el complete.el dabbrev.el icomplete.el ido.el indent.el iswitchb.el minibuf-eldef.el rfn-eshadow.el simple.el tmm.el calc/calc-aent.el calc/calc.el emacs-lisp/crm.el emulation/viper-cmd.el emulation/viper-util.el eshell/em-hist.el As long as it doesn't delay the inclusion of `crm.el', I don't have a preference whether you pick up revision 1.5 or the current version. Defining general functions like `minibuffer-prompt-end' in unrelated packages doesn't seem to be a good idea to me. I'd prefer the suggesting from the Elisp manual: ,----[ (info "(elisp)Coding Conventions") ] | * If a package needs to define an alias or a new function for | compatibility with some other version of Emacs, name it with the | package prefix, not with the raw name with which it occurs in the | other version. Here is an example from Gnus, which provides many | examples of such compatibility issues. | | (defalias 'gnus-point-at-bol | (if (fboundp 'point-at-bol) | 'point-at-bol | 'line-beginning-position)) `---- Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/