From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Cc: emacs-org list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Name-space prefixes in ox- packages
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 03:19:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY3k4ZcyB8ReH4DRM0gWB4GYKiv_+pPyQU6vkrH9=x02fA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zia42du6.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
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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? I'd be surprised if
anyone using Org is using MS-DOS. But regardless, the "ox-" prefix
definitely looks better than "org-export-".
> 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])? Is the prefix requirement for "org-" more widespread than that?
[1]: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2016-05/msg00231.html
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-09 12:09 Name-space prefixes in ox- packages Kaushal Modi
2017-09-09 13:36 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-09-10 3:19 ` Kaushal Modi [this message]
2017-09-10 7:56 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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