From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 22:41:29 +0200 Message-ID: <83a9dcxp8m.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wqgr4v18.fsf@yandex.ru> <53064BD0.7070009@yandex.ru> <87ha7tr5bo.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87ppmhecd8.fsf@yandex.ru> <87y50z90pd.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87txbn8r6x.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <8338j717oe.fsf@gnu.org> <87zjlf6tdx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83sir7yue7.fsf@gnu.org> <8761o3dlak.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83bnxuzyl4.fsf@gnu.org> <871tyqes5q.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87a9ddg7o8.fsf@engster.org> <87d2i9ee8t.fsf@engster.org> <874n3ke1qn.fsf@engster.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1393533697 2747 80.91.229.3 (27 Feb 2014 20:41:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:41:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org, john@yates-sheets.org To: David Engster Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 27 21:41:44 2014 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 1WJ7m3-0004f3-FQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:41:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47857 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WJ7m3-0004Tf-56 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:41:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46801) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WJ7lv-0004RY-Kj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:41:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WJ7lq-0005lT-Kr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:41:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:47448) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WJ7lq-0005lA-Cp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:41:30 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N1O003008WJY200@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 22:41:29 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N1O003SC9H4L550@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 22:41:29 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <874n3ke1qn.fsf@engster.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:169914 Archived-At: > From: David Engster > Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:31:44 +0100 > Cc: =D3scar Fuentes , > =09Emacs developers >=20 > It is not *my* goal, and it is used here to steer people away from > working on Semantic's C++ parser, saying it is pointless if it can = never > do refactoring, which is a *much* harder problem than providing > completions. I don't see the point in discouraging people like that= . Right. > As always: unless someone starts working on these things, nothing w= ill > happen, and surely nothing comes out of those centi-threads we seem= to > have every month nowadays. Indeed, I hope someone will put their money where their mouth is, and start coding.