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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Dove Young <dove.young@gmail.com>,
	Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
	8802@debbugs.gnu.org, Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
	Ilya Zakharevich <ilyaz@cpan.org>
Subject: bug#8802: cperl-write-tags function in cperl-mode.el hard coded tags-file-name
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:51:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvhb6zxkbt.fsf-monnier+INBOX@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eoaacrurqp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:35:42 -0400")

>>> I'd rather that such a change be installed in Ilya's upstream
>>> version first.  We already have plenty of merge problems because of
>>> patches he rejected.
> This always makes me wonder: what is the point of having a file in Emacs
> where modifying it is not allowed (or at least, is strongly
> discouraged)? Why not move it to GNU ELPA? It's not like there isn't
> another perl mode in Emacs, which is actually used by default.

Good point.  But AFAIK it does have a fairly large number of users.
Chong, Ilya, what do you guys think?


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-06 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-05  3:36 bug#8802: cperl-write-tags function in cperl-mode.el hard coded tags-file-name Dove Young
2011-07-06 17:14 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-06 18:15   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-06 18:21     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-06 19:35       ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-06 19:51         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-07-06 19:54           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-19  5:19     ` Stefan Kangas

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