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: Emacs regexp scan (Sep 29) Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2019 20:19:27 +0300 Message-ID: <83ftk53i74.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1697CA97-B2E6-4202-B14D-99DCF93954FD@acm.org> <02405f0d-788f-1b87-0269-b06eb2d67ff8@cs.ucla.edu> <83zhif4nq6.fsf@gnu.org> <6cf4485e-3d94-ce92-6342-d83cdc7f95d7@cs.ucla.edu> <83k19j4fw3.fsf@gnu.org> <2831f530-b702-50e0-e494-8620d5a0fdb5@cs.ucla.edu> <83muef2dmj.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="173887"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: mattiase@acm.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 06 19:19:46 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 (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iHACA-000j3X-Ek for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2019 19:19:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35962 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iHAC8-0007Wn-LR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2019 13:19:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37200) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iHAC0-0007Uv-PR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2019 13:19:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60235) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iHAC0-0002Vs-LC; Sun, 06 Oct 2019 13:19:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4927 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iHABz-0003nY-Jh; Sun, 06 Oct 2019 13:19:36 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Paul Eggert on Sat, 5 Oct 2019 12:50:59 -0700) 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: 2.1.23 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:240649 Archived-At: > Cc: mattiase@acm.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2019 12:50:59 -0700 > > On 10/5/19 12:31 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > I consider the new code in tibetan.el "confusing", so should I go > > ahead and change it back to what it was before? > > Sure, feel free. I'd like to try to avoid the need for that in the future, because it leaves bad taste in people's mouth, and sometimes wastes time an energy. Can we please agree to make stylistic changes only if either (a) the change is in the code which is being modified/fixed anyway, or (b) the change doesn't affect the code produced from the modified source?