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: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 05:34:38 +0200 Message-ID: <83o8i23fht.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> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31971"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 04:35:17 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 1kwzbR-0008D1-UE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 04:35:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41622 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwzbQ-0003kG-Uu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 22:35:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43862) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwzav-0003L3-Ea for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 22:34:45 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51404) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwzat-0004cE-Eu; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 22:34:43 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4367 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kwzaq-0000yk-Sv; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 22:34:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Gregory Heytings on Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:14:33 +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:262560 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:14:33 +0000 > From: Gregory Heytings > cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > It is very easy to compare without having both behaviors in the same > > binary: just keep old binaries around. That's what I do, and it allows > > me to quickly see what was past behavior, and even perform a quick > > "bisection" when some new problem is reported. Highly recommended. > > That's what I do, too. But you can't expect regular users to do this to > compare two behaviors in order to give feedback. Why not? This is not about any user, this is about people who track the Emacs development.