From: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: jporterbugs@gmail.com, gregory@heytings.org, 62370@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62370: 28.1; sieve-mode: faces should inherit from font-lock-X-face faces
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:03:47 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZBv509dzNeLHkyrh@hera.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83jzz854zi.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Thu 23 Mar 2023 08:58:09 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 12:05:24 +1100
> > From: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
> > 62370@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > I don't think "I opened foo.sieve in Emacs 20 twenty years ago, and
> > now I opened foo.sieve in Emacs 30 today, and the colors aren't identical, and now I'm mad"
> > is a good argument for never changing the defaults.
>
> From my POV, it _is_ a good argument. Especially when the defaults
> change in a feature that is easily customizable, and so basically you
> are asking to impose your preferences, which are easily catered to by
> your local customizations, on everyone else.
>
> > Emacs changes the defaults like that ALL THE TIME.
>
> That's not true. We do that rarely and sparingly, precisely for the
> reasons you consider unimportant.
>
> > If they piss me off, I just patch back in the old behaviour and forget about it.
>
> You can do the same with the current defaults, so why are you asking
> us to change them?
I thought I was asking "make sieve-mode faces follow best current practice" (i.e. inherit from font-lock where appropriate), not
"change sieve-mode faces from Tim's arbitrary preference to Trent's arbitrary preference".
But I am not really interested in arguing this further, so let's just WONTFIX this ticket.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-22 5:41 bug#62370: 28.1; sieve-mode: faces should inherit from font-lock-X-face faces Trent W. Buck
2023-03-22 14:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-22 20:10 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-03-22 21:22 ` Jim Porter
2023-03-23 1:05 ` Trent W. Buck
2023-03-23 6:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-23 7:03 ` Trent W. Buck [this message]
2023-03-23 7:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-23 16:11 ` Jim Porter
2023-09-03 10:30 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-03 11:04 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-09-05 4:43 ` Jim Porter
2023-09-05 12:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-05 15:52 ` Jim Porter
2023-09-05 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
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