From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Removing MULTI_KBOARD Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:55:57 -0700 Message-ID: <200808020655.m726tvsI017108@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <200807310343.m6V3h1Zo006813@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200807311921.m6VJLxu1016770@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200808011209.m71C9Tj3018356@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217660270 19757 80.91.229.12 (2 Aug 2008 06:57:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 06:57:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 02 08:58:39 2008 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 1KPB4Y-0005Qg-N8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:58:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50934 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KPB3e-0003ws-3d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:57:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KPB3X-0003rv-N8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:57:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KPB3X-0003rP-CA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:57:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51599 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KPB3X-0003rD-2l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:57:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:60538) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KPB3O-0007N0-K9; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:57:26 -0400 Original-Received: from sallyv1.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.109]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KPB3N-00032T-To; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:57:26 -0400 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1218264957.35999@RVF30DYRdtJboKu9lDHB5g Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv1.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m726tvsI017108; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 23:55:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:12:48 -0400") Original-Lines: 17 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:101945 Archived-At: Richard M Stallman writes: > > > did we agree to remove MULTI_KBOARD or didn't we? > > > > Why? > > Well, obviously because, if it was not discussed, that's the kind of > wide-scale change that *should* have been discussed. > > You are right about that. Sorry, but this approach is not a good start. The code was turned off by default, unused and unnecessary, and that has been explained on the list almost a year ago. If someone has a problem with that, it would be much more productive to explain why, but not just hand waving, with some real experience/examples. Otherwise please let bygones be bygones, it's a terrible waste of time.