From: Gregory Heytings via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 43572@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#43572: Feature request: make it possible to choose whether the first lines of the minibuffer should be displayed instead of the last ones
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 21:49:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.22.394.2010022331030453.21161@sdf.lonestar.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lfgoe88c.fsf@gnu.org>
>> Your reaction is saddening. I'm very sorry to read this, but you
>> rejected all my attempts to solve that problem so far, so that's not
>> surprising.
>
> I rejected what clearly looked like unsafe and unclean design. Please
> respect the opinions of those who have deeper knowledge of Emacs
> internals and many years of experience hacking them. Your insistence on
> doing things in sub-optimal ways when much better ways are at hand makes
> it hard to discuss these issues with you and arrive at sound solutions
> that can be trusted not to produce bugs in the future.
>
I won't go in that direction, I will not start a public quarrel with you.
I can only repeat that your reaction is saddening.
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2020-09-22 20:57 bug#43572: Feature request: make it possible to choose whether the first lines of the minibuffer should be displayed instead of the last ones Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-23 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-23 19:15 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-23 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-23 20:15 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-24 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-24 14:41 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-24 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-24 16:09 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-24 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-24 16:40 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-24 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-24 21:51 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-25 6:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-25 8:34 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-25 9:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-25 10:14 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-25 11:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-25 11:34 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-23 22:59 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-25 18:31 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-23 18:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-23 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-23 23:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-24 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-24 16:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-24 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27 21:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-28 6:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 13:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-28 13:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 16:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-02 15:40 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-10-02 16:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-02 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-02 16:25 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-10-02 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-02 21:49 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-04-29 14:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-23 19:46 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-23 20:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-23 22:47 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-23 23:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-23 23:26 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-24 2:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-24 7:45 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-24 16:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-24 8:06 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-24 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-24 14:52 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-24 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-24 14:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-24 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-24 14:27 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-09-24 16:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-24 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27 21:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-28 6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 13:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-28 13:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 16:56 ` Stefan Monnier
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2020-09-28 15:53 ` Drew Adams
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