From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
larsi@gnus.org, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: master 513c5d827d: Use `format-prompt' in
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 10:26:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735d6fcqz.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1oV3Lq-0006TZ-Gr@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:04:46 -0400")
>>>>> On Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:04:46 -0400, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> said:
>> > We've transformed virtually all prompts like this to use
>> > `format-prompt', so it's just something people that read
>> > code like this have to get used to.
>> Wow. The logic of that...
Richard> There is no rational argument there, only emotion.
Richard> To contribute to useful discussion of what to do,
Richard> what we need are rational arguments.
Like Lars said: using `format-prompt' allows people to adjust the
appearance of prompts according to their preferences. People who write
code for emacs need to know what its various functions do, and the job
`format-prompt' does is not particularly hard to remember.
Robert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-05 8:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-03 9:15 master 513c5d827d: Use `format-prompt' in Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-03 9:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-03 9:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-03 9:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-03 9:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-03 15:50 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-09-05 4:04 ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-05 8:26 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2022-09-05 11:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-05 11:54 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-05 12:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-05 12:29 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-05 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-05 16:02 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-05 16:10 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-06 4:16 ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-06 12:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-07 2:23 ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-07 10:03 ` Robert Pluim
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