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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: re-builder highlighting incorrect for more than 3 groupings
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 11:38:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85r73csr59.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0605020230s5f49a17bjf96b23223b702a07@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Tue, 2 May 2006 11:30:22 +0200")

"Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:

> On 5/2/06, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> A complete waste of code for no apparent good whatsoever.
>
> Then remove the definitions for faces reb-match-[1-3]. reb-match-0
> should suffice. At the very least, reb-match-[2,3] are unnecessary,
> from a zen-minimalistic POV.

The cycling patch was not reducing the number of distinct colors:
there never was a proposal to add more _distinct_ colors to the
standard scheme.

That's what "no apparent good whatsoever" is about: just defining more
faces in a cyclic fashion does not change the appearance in any way.

> Not to mention that "no apparent good whatsoever" is highly
> subjective, isn't it?

No, it isn't.  If the colors are the same anyway, there is no point in
attaining that effect in a more verbose manner.

>> So what?  It is not like the cycling code would keep them from doing
>> that if they want to.
>
> No. But I think we could agree that there are at least three criteria
> (perhaps more) to define something as a good default for Emacs:
>
> - Defaulting to that something makes Emacs safer out-of-the-box
> - Defaulting to that something is easier to understand for a newbie
>  - If not a default, most people interested in the feature will set
> or define that something in their .emacs
>
> I was hypothesizing about the third condition.

So what?  You have not given _any_ kind of rationale where this third
condition would in any way be affected.  Users can define more colors
if they really want to.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-02  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-25 19:40 re-builder highlighting incorrect for more than 3 groupings Christian Plate
2006-04-26  6:56 ` martin rudalics
2006-04-27  4:36   ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-27  8:55     ` martin rudalics
2006-04-27  9:04     ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-04-28 22:03       ` Adrian Aichner
2006-04-28 23:23         ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-04-29 19:09         ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-29 20:36           ` Adrian Aichner
2006-04-30  1:02           ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-04-29  8:12       ` martin rudalics
2006-04-30  1:07         ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-04-30  3:03         ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-01 15:21           ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-05-02  2:04             ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-02  8:42               ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-05-02  9:06                 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-02  9:30                   ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-05-02  9:38                     ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-05-02 10:17                       ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-05-02 21:37                 ` Richard Stallman

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