From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Install C source code for for debugging help
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:56:53 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835zldkfkq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvef016ef6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 27 Sep 2019 09:48:57 -0400)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 09:48:57 -0400
>
> > What other GNU project installs sources, let alone by default?
> > Why should Emacs be different?
>
> Because Emacs provides buttons to jump straight to the source.
Then how about an alternative change, whereby we do not show these
buttons when the sources cannot be found?
> I think it is an important feature of Emacs that the source code is
> always within easy reach. I feel it makes it "Freer": we don't just
> allow the users to have access to the source, we even encourage them to
> dig into it.
I feel it's a tail wagging the dog. Both you and my (and others on
this list) have the sources installed, so we are all inherently skewed
in our judgment of this. To see whether this is a useful feature,
we'd need a real user poll.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-27 13:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-26 20:37 Install C source code for for debugging help Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 5:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 6:13 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 13:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-27 13:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-27 13:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 13:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-27 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-09-27 14:24 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-28 4:03 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 17:04 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-09-27 22:45 ` Fu Yuan
2019-09-28 0:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-09-28 2:14 ` Michael Rohleder
2019-09-27 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-28 1:32 ` Richard Stallman
2019-09-28 2:06 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-09-27 15:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-27 15:47 ` David Ringo
2019-09-27 8:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-09-27 9:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 11:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-09-27 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 13:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-09-27 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-09-28 18:19 Angelo Graziosi
2019-09-29 6:56 ` Paul Eggert
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