Re: small article highlighting bug?

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> But are boolean variables supposed to end in "-p"?  Isn't that
> really just predicate functions?

According to the Emacs manual, boolean variables should end in "-flag"
when there is a need to indicate their boolean-ness.

However, having variables end in "-p" appears to be quite common, both 
for temporary variables and customization variables.  There are also
examples of -p boolean variables from ZMACS, ZWEI and others, as
reported by Jamie Zawinski.  Here are the "-p" variables in my current 
XEmacs image:

(apropos-internal "-p\\'" 'boundp)
  => (atomic-extent-goto-char-p auto-save-hash-p
      bottom-toolbar-visible-p browse-url-new-window-p
      buffers-menu-submenus-for-groups-p
      c-echo-syntactic-information-p
      c-enable-xemacs-performance-kludge-p c-hanging-comment-ender-p
      c-hanging-comment-starter-p c-indent-comments-syntactically-p
      c-recognize-knr-p c-strict-syntax-p
      c-style-variables-are-local-p complex-buffers-menu-p
      cperl-xemacs-p default-toolbar-visible-p
      font-menu-this-frame-only-p gnus-article-decoded-p
      gnus-async-prefetch-article-p gnus-frame-split-p
      gnus-topology-checked-p has-modeline-p
      horizontal-scrollbar-visible-p initial-frame-unmapped-p
      ispell-highlight-p ispell-look-p ispell-pdict-modified-p
      ispell-use-framepop-p ispell-use-ptys-p left-toolbar-visible-p
      mail-use-multiple-buffers-p mailcap-parsed-p menubar-visible-p
      mouse-track-rectangle-p ps-print-color-p right-toolbar-visible-p
      scroll-pos-visible-bug-p scrollbar-on-left-p scrollbar-on-top-p
      scrollbars-visible-p sgml-xml-p teach-extended-commands-p
      text-cursor-visible-p toolbar-buttons-captioned-p
      toolbar-captioned-p toolbar-visible-p top-toolbar-visible-p
      vertical-divider-always-visible-p vertical-scrollbar-visible-p
      widget-documentation-link-p zmacs-region-active-p
      zmacs-region-rectangular-p)

And here are the "-flag" ones:

(apropos-internal "-flag\\'" 'boundp)
  => (bq-at-flag bq-comma-flag bq-dot-flag cl-hacked-flag
      file-precious-flag isearch-yank-flag mc-flag
      minibuffer-history-sexp-flag purify-flag quit-flag
      sgml-conref-flag widget-menu-minibuffer-flag)

Personally, "-p" sounds nicer than "-flag", but I don't care all that
much.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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