From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improving aesthetics & readability of backquote Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 10:56:48 +0300 Message-ID: <834l5m9b27.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20190520085241.GA5136@ACM> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="82849"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Paul W. Rankin" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 22 09:57:31 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hTM7v-000LNj-2I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 May 2019 09:57:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37986 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hTM7p-0001r8-8g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 May 2019 03:57:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54222) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hTM7F-0001p2-Nt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 May 2019 03:56:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33140) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hTM7F-0002yB-L0; Wed, 22 May 2019 03:56:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3729 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hTM77-0004x0-Lu; Wed, 22 May 2019 03:56:42 -0400 In-reply-to: (hello@paulwrankin.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:236887 Archived-At: > From: "Paul W. Rankin" > Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 12:46:49 +1000 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > In the recent mailing list thread (cited in my first email), both > Eli and Stefan urged people to request features in Emacs when they > found the existing Emacs capabilities insufficient: I think there might be some over-reaction here. No one reprimanded you for bringing up this suggestion. What happened is that Richard expressed his opinion about the suggested feature, that's all. I'm sure you will agree that some suggestions which Stefan and myself solicited will cause objections and disagreements. That's entirely normal and should be expected. Let's continue discussing this issue until we understand the balance of the different opinions about your proposal.