From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#64355: 29.0.91; Should there be a command to delete a register? Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2023 22:15:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24975"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 64355@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 02 04:16:31 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qFmda-0006IT-TM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2023 04:16:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qFmdD-0005uO-C0; Sat, 01 Jul 2023 22:16:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qFmd9-0005tW-2t for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jul 2023 22:16:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qFmd8-0007Im-QC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jul 2023 22:16:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qFmd8-000878-LP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jul 2023 22:16:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2023 02:16:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 64355 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 64355-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B64355.168826416131167 (code B ref 64355); Sun, 02 Jul 2023 02:16:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 64355) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Jul 2023 02:16:01 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58953 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qFmd7-00086Y-6s for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jul 2023 22:16:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36826) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1qFmd5-00086A-8u for 64355@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jul 2023 22:15:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qFmcz-0007Hr-Pp; Sat, 01 Jul 2023 22:15:53 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=+gr2Lj8U7pRvZKYwH8C4O148zKKk0cMmGizZgBxUGFQ=; b=U9UfIoc1FQf8 e75n61G0Ruh1pJdVwNATwQS20zqQodC2FS466X1gbNL77SexdiZmGGgxZXXI490XoIXj5O0vzYOv+ 64YX4Ru1P/1MJoMMQIvRNv6l487zJ6SxX4Cbb0RGr6FLIPQjJ8zW2IdaXrfliUhruVNeIfAFsjekM m7SXhvXNBhTc/rhlcKEsplEgttd6yYgss/+a304dfXypM04MrOMAeECoZsX7139GU6TpU/93e9YPU A+IZsSJeBQa3e2x1P/RJgBqW17nuZ5YXVHvd3LO4KPCt5En3+2YyiRtz82DKm9OHz8M8IQOjZDPZb Puv1tQjHvwLebl+qG0CB9g==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qFmcz-0007Hx-CE; Sat, 01 Jul 2023 22:15:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Drew Adams on Thu, 29 Jun 2023 19:45:06 +0000) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:264439 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > There has never been such a command, and you can simply set an existing > register to a new value, so arguably there's no need for a delete > command. But it might be clearer for users if they could explicitly > delete a register, so it didn't show up in preview lists etc. I suggest we choose the simpler option: no change. Let's not add commands merely for symmetry's sake. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)