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: Ugly regexps Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 17:11:02 +0200 Message-ID: <83o8fzhs3d.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83pn0g6ajq.fsf@gnu.org> <83v9a8jj2x.fsf@gnu.org> <83mtvkjb6c.fsf@gnu.org> <96182b13-f921-6f91-0cdc-320f54ed16bf@yandex.ru> <469cc46c-5e0e-cd98-dc62-67f29139d9a2@yandex.ru> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34586"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 04 16:16:21 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 1lHpi9-0008tC-1Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2021 16:16:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51436 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHpi7-00014t-UI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2021 10:16:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38124) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHpdJ-0001L2-8I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2021 10:11:21 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33627) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHpdI-0000lj-KH; Thu, 04 Mar 2021 10:11:20 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2307 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lHpdI-00043K-1e; Thu, 04 Mar 2021 10:11:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: <469cc46c-5e0e-cd98-dc62-67f29139d9a2@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Thu, 4 Mar 2021 16:25:58 +0200) 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:265965 Archived-At: > Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 16:25:58 +0200 > > > More generally, I wish we stopped investing so much of our time and > > energy in cleanups and other support tasks, and more to add > > significant new applications and editing features. That would make > > more users happier, I think. > > Perhaps if contributors didn't have to fight you about every little > thing they need to change or fix (or if you responded to arguments, at > least), we'll get more features over time. This is especially > discouraging when the disagreement is over a minor change in a package I > supposedly maintain (bug#44611 is the most glaring example). > > I can't threaten to slam the door and leave every time this happens, but > this kind of malarkey sucks out a significant amount of time and enthusiasm. Ah, okay. So I'm the culprit. Thanks, noted.