From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: isearch-yank-char Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:04:32 +0300 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <871xm8wv6j.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <874qr7l59b.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <20040426230345.GA8594@fencepost> <877jw2cq4f.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <87ad0xvo33.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083128967 18973 80.91.224.253 (28 Apr 2004 05:09:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 05:09:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 28 07:09:16 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BIhJs-0006x9-00 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:09:16 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BIhJr-0005hk-01 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:09:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BIhJq-0002WR-FL for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 01:09:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BIhJ8-0002Jn-9j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 01:08:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BIhIb-00029d-Aa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 01:08:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.19] (helo=spoon.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BIhI5-0001y9-4e; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 01:07:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-32-202-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.32.202]) by spoon.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 784A213D95A; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 22:07:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: (David Kastrup's message of "27 Apr 2004 11:41:47 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22281 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22281 David Kastrup writes: > I think we should rather strive to invest the time for these > considerations where they affect all users: all the people that are > discussing here are perfectly capable of configuring their Emacs to > behave like it did previously, with less effort than it takes them > leading those discussions. They are still doing those discussions > because they care for more than just their personal preference. It still would be good if Emacs developers provided the compatibility code after every backward-incompatible change for maintainers of external Emacs packages. For example, the change in the interface of the function `split-string' causes Emacs packages I'm maintaining to fail. I'm not against changes if they are for the better, but I think that authors of these changes could write some kind of function wrappers that will work the same for all Emacs versions instead of forcing maintainers of external Emacs packages to invent their own workarounds. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/