* bug#64355: 29.0.91; Should there be a command to delete a register?
@ 2023-06-29 19:45 Drew Adams
2023-07-02 2:15 ` Richard Stallman
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2023-06-29 19:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 64355
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.
In GNU Emacs 29.0.91 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2023-05-14 built
on AVALON
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.19045
System Description: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (v10.0.2009.19045.3086)
Configured using:
'configure --with-modules --without-dbus --with-native-compilation
--without-compress-install --with-tree-sitter CFLAGS=-O2'
Configured features:
ACL GIF GMP GNUTLS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP
NOTIFY W32NOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP XPM ZLIB
(NATIVE_COMP present but libgccjit not available)
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* bug#64355: 29.0.91; Should there be a command to delete a register?
2023-06-29 19:45 bug#64355: 29.0.91; Should there be a command to delete a register? Drew Adams
@ 2023-07-02 2:15 ` Richard Stallman
2023-09-04 20:23 ` Stefan Kangas
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Richard Stallman @ 2023-07-02 2:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: 64355
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> 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.
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* bug#64355: 29.0.91; Should there be a command to delete a register?
2023-07-02 2:15 ` Richard Stallman
@ 2023-09-04 20:23 ` Stefan Kangas
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Kangas @ 2023-09-04 20:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Richard Stallman; +Cc: 64355, Drew Adams
tags 64355 wontfix
close 64355
thanks
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> > 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.
I tend to agree with Richard, especially seeing that we have no use case
for this. I'm therefore closing this bug report.
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