From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Three strikes them out Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:59:18 +0200 Message-ID: <4841D846.9040309@gmx.at> References: <48403C07.5080404@gmail.com> <484113E8.1040008@gmail.com> <4841177E.8020708@gmx.at> <484118F0.2050805@gmail.com> <48412778.7030302@gmx.at> <48413D82.9080304@gmail.com> <48415454.9050607@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212274821 15097 80.91.229.12 (31 May 2008 23:00:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 23:00:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , Stefan Monnier , Emacs Devel To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 01 01:01:02 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 1K2a4J-0007Ng-0M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:00:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56453 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K2a3X-0004W8-CS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 May 2008 19:00:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K2a25-0003R2-Bv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 May 2008 18:58:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K2a24-0003QV-Qs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 May 2008 18:58:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59581 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K2a24-0003QM-J6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 May 2008 18:58:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:56004) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K2a24-0002ps-4H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 May 2008 18:58:40 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 31 May 2008 22:58:38 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-48-160.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.48.160]) [62.47.48.160] by mail.gmx.net (mp037) with SMTP; 01 Jun 2008 00:58:38 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/tbmcRFf3tnuPU3EMh0rDExquBj9rzESaWP2S+CO 0S29OwI+Oc23fc User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:98155 Archived-At: > I agree with Lennart that Emacs should provide more facilities to get > out of awkward situations. Sure, fix the bug, but how is any given Emacs > user affected by some Emacs bug somewhere supposed to do that? If the bug is with Emacs' fontification routines there's hardly anything a user can do but give a simple and precise recipe to reproduce the bug and wait until someone familiar with the code fixes it. At least that's what I would do. > Lennarts "c-g repeatedly" maybe wasnt the best example. Surely this > doesnt exclude the possibility of adding some other helpful feature? If it's timer based it might depend on whether you're able to intercept it.