From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Character folding in the pretest Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 09:24:24 -0500 Message-ID: <56B60218.40704@cornell.edu> References: <87mvriuk3a.fsf@gmail.com> <8737t9ex1p.fsf@petton.fr> <83oabxyf71.fsf@gnu.org> <56B230D1.90902@gmail.com> <87bn7x4i4o.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87d1sc4rin.fsf@djcbsoftware.nl> <837fiit92x.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454768703 31982 80.91.229.3 (6 Feb 2016 14:25:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 14:25:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: djcb@djcbsoftware.nl, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , =?UTF-8?Q?Per_Starb=c3=a4ck?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 06 15:24:54 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1aS3nB-0004Yb-HI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 15:24:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54054 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aS3n7-00083x-IL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 09:24:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44052) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aS3n3-00083q-QN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 09:24:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aS3n0-0005zO-Hv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 09:24:45 -0500 Original-Received: from limerock01.mail.cornell.edu ([128.84.13.241]:54025) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aS3n0-0005zE-Dr; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 09:24:42 -0500 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Original-Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite4.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.9]) by limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id u16EOOiU015045; Sat, 6 Feb 2016 09:24:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [10.13.22.4] (65-112-130-194.dia.static.qwest.net [65.112.130.194]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id u16EOMge017454 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sat, 6 Feb 2016 09:24:23 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 In-Reply-To: <837fiit92x.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.84.13.241 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:199413 Archived-At: On 2/6/2016 5:41 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > No one intends to continue "ad infinitum". That's another red > herring. We should continue collecting feedback for a couple more of > pretest releases, that's all. Then we can make the decision based on > that feedback. I counted 10 people (excluding myself and Artur) who > expressed their clear opinions in this thread; that is way too few for > an intelligent decision, IMO. I'll add one more. I like character folding in its present form, and I will use it whether it's on by default or not. As to whether it should be on by default, I agree with those who say it's too early to make that decision. Ken