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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: Name-space prefixes in ox- packages
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 09:56:12 +0200
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Hello,

Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 9:36 AM Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> "ox" stands for "org-export-". This is so to limit file name size. Some
>> systems are very limited (e.g. MS-DOS).
>>
>
> Is that file name size that important in today's time?

For some Emacs developers, it is.

If Emacs drops MS-DOS support, we can reconsider this. I doubt this is
going to happen any time soon.

>> Variables and functions should really be "org-export-html..." but that
>> would be very long. The "org" prefix is mandatory for Org variables and
>> functions. "ox" would be misleading.
>>
>
> Does this have to do with org-export--generate-copy-script (as discussed
> here[1])?

I don't think so.

> Is the prefix requirement for "org-" more widespread than that?

IIRC, it is an Emacs convention. Variables should be prefixed by the
major mode's name, since Emacs has no proper namespace.


Regards,


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Nicolas Goaziou                                                0x80A93738