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: Confused by y-or-n-p Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:23:22 +0200 Message-ID: <83lfd4ltb9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <834kkcr1eo.fsf@gnu.org> <83bleinmse.fsf@gnu.org> <56435592-d2d0-5fb6-977f-01e1931da835@gmx.at> <87k0t38g1z.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83czyvkts6.fsf@gnu.org> <87bleetirr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87y2hhri3n.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83pn2tkfg8.fsf@gnu.org> <871rf7ippu.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83a6trg6mc.fsf@gnu.org> <87im8f951f.fsf@gnus.org> <83lfdacapo.fsf@gnu.org> <83wnwra15u.fsf@gnu.org> <83o8i23fht.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26104"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ghe@sdf.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 07 15:24:00 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 1kxWCm-0006YR-Fs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:24:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33192 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxWCl-0004Ve-JN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:23:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50500) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxWCH-00045v-4a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:23:29 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56311) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxWCG-00018o-IR; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:23:28 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3300 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kxWC9-00047m-7P; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:23:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:41:21 -0500) 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:262678 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: ghe@sdf.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:41:21 -0500 > > Making an option variable for each possibly controversial change is > a favor to everyone. Which is why we are doing that in every case where we decide that the change could be (or is) controversial.