From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12973: @: overused in manual Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:16:08 -0500 Message-ID: References: <50AFCDA1.8020500@cs.ucla.edu> <831ufjtsrb.fsf@gnu.org> <50B06D14.2070104@cs.ucla.edu> <83zk27savf.fsf@gnu.org> <50B16A6A.9000701@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353870987 30330 80.91.229.3 (25 Nov 2012 19:16:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:16:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, 12973@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 25 20:16:38 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tchh0-0001k6-GT for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 20:16:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36540 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tchgp-0005of-Ba for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:16:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51262) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tchgm-0005oX-HX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:16:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tchgl-0006K1-M8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:16:24 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:56489) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tchgl-0006Jx-JK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:16:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TchiL-0007tb-RG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:18:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:18:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12973 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 12973-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12973.135387107230335 (code B ref 12973); Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:18:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12973) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 Nov 2012 19:17:52 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38507 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TchiB-0007tE-Lq for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:17:52 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:49415) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tchi9-0007t7-LA for 12973@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:17:50 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TchgW-0007jM-54; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:16:08 -0500 X-Spook: INS UOP strategic explosion e-bomb Jiang Zemin spies X-Ran: $!=PI5}d.hN>oneXw*AtP:`,\a8,B, (Paul Eggert's message of "Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:46:34 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:67462 Archived-At: Paul Eggert wrote: > Our release strategy makes it difficult to fix these style changes > now: if we made changes like these, either to the trunk or to the > emacs-24 branch, that'd make it harder to merge other emacs-24 changes > into the trunk later. There's zero problem wrt merging if the changes go to emacs-24 now. If they go trunk, they will probably create repeated merge annoyances (like any pervasive formatting change would).