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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: contovob@tcd.ie, ohwoeowho@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master fd54102: * lisp/files.el (file-size-function): New defcustom
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 20:29:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <837e8aq8oq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B53B40CA-AFF5-4C32-A67C-277FA1F44FB6@acm.org> (message from Mattias Engdegård on Mon, 22 Jul 2019 17:26:10 +0200)

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 17:26:10 +0200
> Cc: Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>         emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> Agreed, and this defcustom (file-size-function) has a much more general-sounding name and description than merited by its effects (which are limited to the "available disk space" number in Dired and that's it).
> 
> Attached is a minimal clean-up which remedies some of the flaws, but perhaps we should instead roll back the defcustom and all related changes entirely until a cohesive proposal is forthcoming, as per your and Eli's comments. Fighting it out in the source isn't really going to be productive.

Thanks.  Please consider calling this out in NEWS and maybe also in
the ELisp manual.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-22 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2019-07-20 16:53   ` [Emacs-diffs] master fd54102: * lisp/files.el (file-size-function): New defcustom Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-07-20 17:06     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-20 17:38       ` Oleh Krehel
2019-07-20 17:45         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-20 17:50           ` Oleh Krehel
2019-07-20 17:56             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-20 18:50         ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-07-22 15:26           ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-07-22 16:15             ` Oleh Krehel
2019-07-22 20:14               ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-26 10:43                 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-07-26 14:39                   ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-07-26 21:39                     ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-07-22 17:29             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-07-20 17:30     ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-07-20 18:48       ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-07-20 19:06         ` Mattias Engdegård

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