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Re: Another Emacs incompatibilty
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Robert Pluim |
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Re: Another Emacs incompatibilty |
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Mon, 17 Aug 2020 17:54:37 +0200 |
>>>>> On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 17:14:54 +0200, tg@gmplib.org (Torbjörn Granlund)
>>>>> said:
Torbjörn> [Unfortunately, since I am not subscribed to this mailing list,
this
Torbjörn> follow-up mail will not have the right thread backlinks.]
Torbjörn> To define this as a matter of balance between development
progress and
Torbjörn> compatibility is a false dichotomy.
Torbjörn> No, emacs development is not "too fast" for me, as somebody
suggested.
Torbjörn> Any rate of fundamentally incompatible changes is too fast.
Torbjörn> For example, changing the way something as fundamental as regions
work
Torbjörn> in a very mature editor is just a bad idea. A really really bad
idea.
Torbjörn> By all means, define some other type of region and let that have
other
Torbjörn> semantics, or, let users opt in to incompatible regions by having
them
Torbjörn> set a variable in their .emacs.
Torbjörn> And please do explain why inserting gremlins in my buffers upon
window
Torbjörn> focus changes is progress.
Thatʼs not progress, thatʼs a bug. Did you report it?
Robert
- Another Emacs incompatibilty, Torbjörn Granlund, 2020/08/16
- Re: Another Emacs incompatibilty, Torbjörn Granlund, 2020/08/17
- Re: Another Emacs incompatibilty,
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- Re: Another Emacs incompatibilty, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/08/17
- Re: Another Emacs incompatibilty, Torbjörn Granlund, 2020/08/17
- Re: Another Emacs incompatibilty, Stefan Monnier, 2020/08/17
- Re: Another Emacs incompatibilty, Emanuel Berg, 2020/08/17
- Re: Another Emacs incompatibilty, Gregory Heytings, 2020/08/17
- Re: Another Emacs incompatibilty, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/08/17
- Re: Another Emacs incompatibilty, Emanuel Berg, 2020/08/17
- Re: Another Emacs incompatibilty, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/08/17
- Re: Another Emacs incompatibilty, Stefan Monnier, 2020/08/18
- Re: Another Emacs incompatibilty, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/08/18