From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "T. V. Raman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Things I would like to be added after the release Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:08:57 -0700 Message-ID: <18037.30905.922391.769587@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <86fy5ghs0s.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <18035.28326.988640.435412@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <18036.29770.79749.537013@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87645nsbln.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: raman@users.sf.net NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182103774 12926 80.91.229.12 (17 Jun 2007 18:09:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:09:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: raman@users.sf.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, joakim@verona.se, klaus.berndl@sdm.de To: miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 17 20:09:32 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HzzBp-0007LP-Th for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:09:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzzBp-0008UE-EZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:09:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzzBP-00082x-FL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:09:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzzBO-00082L-M3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:09:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzzBO-00082H-3m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:09:02 -0400 Original-Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.200.81]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HzzBM-0000e8-8K; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:09:00 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (c-71-202-191-236.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[71.202.191.236]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2007061718085801100cmlnue>; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:08:58 +0000 Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0CD0712A4529; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:08:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87645nsbln.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-Mailer: VM alpha-457 under Emacs 22.1.50.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) x-attribution: tvr X-detected-kernel: NetCache Data OnTap 5.x X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73154 Archived-At: well, I would not describe ECB as randomly scattered pieces of advice, that code base is well organized and cleanly written. And you could say I'm biased, but I'm also speaking from my own experience of maintaining a rather large package that is mostly built on advice. And using pre/post command hooks to implement it I believe would have made the codebase impossible to maintain. >>>>> "Miles" == Miles Bader writes: Miles> "T. V. Raman" writes: >> Time will tell, but I believe the form of exntension >> envisioned here will make Emacs' codebase less >> maintainable over time -- that is just a personal opinion Miles> Miles> Less maintainable than random defadvices all over the Miles> place?!?! Miles> Miles> I think if you want anybody to take that opinion Miles> seriously, you'll have to support it a bit... Miles> Miles> -miles -- Come now, if we were really planning to harm Miles> you, would we be waiting here, beside the path, in the Miles> very darkest part of the forest? -- Best Regards, --raman Email: raman@users.sf.net WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ AIM: emacspeak GTalk: tv.raman.tv@gmail.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc Google: tv+raman IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#emacs