title: Emacs recommended use of search-forward-regexp vs re-search-forward?
body: <p>According to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1545993/difference-between-defalias-a-symbol-function-b-and-defalias-a-b">this previous SO post</a>, Emacs has two names (re-search-forward, search-forward-regexp) for the same code function (re-search-forward).</p>
  
  <p>The Emacs doc only mentions re-search-forward, as far as I can see.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a preferred / recommended form that I should use? (Is one of the names deprecated?) Personally I think search-forward-regexp is more informative because it has -regexp explicitly and clearly in the name (vs the shorter and more opaque "re-"). But I would like to stay on the side of recommended practice, if possible.</p>
  
  <p>Another way of asking this is "why would the emacs developers put an alias search-forward-regexp in the code but not in the doc? (Maybe the alias indicates a "better" name because maybe the alias came after the re-search-forward original?)</p>