From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Lift {global,local}-key-binding to Lisp Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 17:08:53 +0200 Message-ID: <83im7v8ut6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83zh1cbpua.fsf@gnu.org> <00a56206-80a0-c2c5-5247-d6be21fea5c0@yandex.ru> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18199"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se, sdl.web@gmail.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Christopher Miles Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 17 16:09:55 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l19gh-0004HA-DK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2021 16:09:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58480 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l19gg-0002VZ-Do for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2021 10:09:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46274) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l19ff-0001gD-80 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2021 10:08:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38268) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l19fe-0002U5-Ap; Sun, 17 Jan 2021 10:08:50 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4176 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l19fd-0004Ce-Lt; Sun, 17 Jan 2021 10:08:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Christopher Miles on Sun, 17 Jan 2021 14:33:05 +0000) 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:263127 Archived-At: > From: Christopher Miles > CC: Dmitry Gutov , Eli Zaretskii , Stefan > Kangas , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" > Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 14:33:05 +0000 > > > There could only be good things following this principle. > > If don't move this, then there is same reason to don't more others. Then don't > change any C code which existed for a long time. So the result is don't touch > any C code.... A reason like existing for decade time is not a reasonable > argument. Should talking technically. Technical reasons are not the only reasons for our decisions; there are also project-management reasons and risks-management reasons. I also presented several technical reasons, you just ignored them for some reason. > An old house existing for decades, should not update it.... because it exists > decades. We should talk about why update it. This "old house" is being updated all day, every day. Just look at the Git logs. Let's not argue straw men, okay?