On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 9:36 AM Nicolas Goaziou <m...@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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Kaushal Modi

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