Re: emacsclient not integrated into modern window systems

[Rusi]

On Sunday, July 12, 2015 at 9:51:41 PM UTC+5:30, Rusi wrote:
> On Sunday, July 12, 2015 at 8:58:07 PM UTC+5:30, Vaidheeswaran C wrote:
> > On Sunday 12 July 2015 08:07 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 
> > > There's nothing there except polite explanation of the issue.
> > 
> > "Not a big deal" is a colloquial expression.  The text books that we
> > learn English from doesn't teach us what this expression means.  When
> > this is the case, we need to rely on our subjective judgement to
> > decide what particular turn of phrase means.  It is also a common
> > experience that a phrase that is polite in a conversation is deemed
> > otherwise in other cultures.
> > 
> > When talking across cultures, it is generally considered a good
> > practice to err on the conservative side.  It wouldn't have been a big
> > deal if the bug was just labelled as Minor.
> 
> Hey Vaidheeswaran!
> We need not personalize (and cuturalize and nationalize and...) this.
> Clearly the *bug* was not welcome in the sense that it is accepted as a bug
> but not having sufficient importance to correct it.  That does not spill over
> to the *persons* involved
> 
> Analogy: Many large projects have code norms. And large enough (and old 
> enough) projects violate these norms left-right-n-center.
> And then some OCD guy will come up and want to correct all the indentation or 
> misnamings or what-have-you.
> So then the others have to tell this super well-meaning but misguided person:
> "Thanks but kindly lay off!"
> 
> More real example:
> Trying to hack inside the python sources I found a bunch of CRLF issues.
> [Yeah this is something I am OCD about -- Ive seen 1000s of lines changed 
> because someone used another editor]
> 
> Asking around on the mailing lists, people suggested a bug report.
> So I filed https://bugs.python.org/issue24507
> Then someone suggested making a whole dependency-tree of CRLF bugs.
> Now even for an CRLF-OCD this seemed a bit excessive, but I complied...
> With https://bugs.python.org/issue24513
> which was forthwith closed

Correction: I see now it is marked as 'later' (not closed/wont-fix etc)