From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.xemacs.design,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rationale for split-string? Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 08:51:11 -0500 (CDT) Sender: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org Message-ID: <200304221351.h3MDpBI12520@eel.dms.auburn.edu> References: <87brz57at2.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <200304171744.h3HHiJCx009215@rum.cs.yale.edu> <87adem27ey.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ist8yv4n.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <200304212111.h3LLBLK11879@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <20030421234347.GA12507@gnu.org> <200304220326.h3M3Q1912252@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <87smsay8ik.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051019571 17598 80.91.224.249 (22 Apr 2003 13:52:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:52:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org, rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org Tue Apr 22 15:52:49 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org ([199.184.165.135]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 197yB8-0004Sn-00 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:51:22 +0200 Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.11.6p2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id h3MDq1M08236; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: (from turnbull@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.11.6p2/8.9.1) id h3MDpG407960 for xemacs-design-mailman@xemacs.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:51:16 -0400 Original-Received: (from mail@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.11.6p2/8.9.1) id h3MDpG207952 for turnbull@tux.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:51:16 -0400 Original-Received: from manatee.dms.auburn.edu (manatee.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.104]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.11.6p2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id h3MDpBM07918; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:51:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eel.dms.auburn.edu (eel.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.108]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3MDpAoc027466; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 08:51:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by eel.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id h3MDpBI12520; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 08:51:11 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: eel.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: stephen@xemacs.org In-reply-to: <87smsay8ik.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) X-XEmacs-List: design Errors-To: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org X-BeenThere: xemacs-design@xemacs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of design and features for XEmacs. List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.xemacs.design:2102 gmane.emacs.devel:13353 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13353 Stephen Turnbull wrote: GNU Emacs made the change (viz. cvs diff -r EMACS_20_2 -r EMACS_20_4 subr.el) without worrying sufficiently about breaking existing code (see Stefan Reichör's post here , or run XEmacs's regression test suite on XEmacs 21.5). I don't see why that should be a barrier to reverting to the old, regular, behavior now. I did not know the history of the function. I did not subscribe to this site four years ago. If I did I would probably have opposed the original change back then, which might not have made any difference anyway. I am not part of some "Conspiracy" started four years ago as others seem to suggest. Anyway, I hope this answers the question of "And where were you four years ago?" which others asked me. I did not subscribe to emacs devel back then. Sincerely, Luc.