From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Minor features and enhancements
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 01:27:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57672A73.7000109@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160619135637.GB5875@acm.fritz.box>
> > This is not about small improvements per se. This is about minor
> >improvements that are implemented by non-trivial changes in basic
> >functionality.
The need to improve Emacs in minor ways can help us discover and fix
problems in basic functionality. Whether a basic function should change
is obviously a more important issue than a minor fix elsewhere, and so
needs more discussion and review. When evaluating proposed improvements
to basic functions, stability is an important merit but it's not the
only one.
Any general policy of avoiding changes to basic functions that only fix
annoyances would be hard to distinguish from a policy that simply avoids
changes to basic functions -- after all, what one person considers
important another can easily say is only an annoyance.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-19 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-19 13:56 Minor features and enhancements Alan Mackenzie
2016-06-19 23:27 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2016-06-20 14:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
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