From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 22:22:29 +0100 Message-ID: <877fxnjpwq.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87388bnzha.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419024182 22427 80.91.229.3 (19 Dec 2014 21:23:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 21:23:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Allen S. Rout" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 19 22:22:55 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y250h-0004R2-6u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 22:22:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60592 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y250g-0006HJ-Ht for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:22:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41344) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y250c-0006H8-Jj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:22:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y250a-00066A-TA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:22:50 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58993) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y250a-00065v-Q1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:22:48 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37933 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y250Y-00028I-E6; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:22:47 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 702DAE0611; Fri, 19 Dec 2014 22:22:29 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87388bnzha.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Fri, 19 Dec 2014 21:42:09 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:180351 Archived-At: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) writes: > If Eric is trying to stir things up a bit, that is surely not a bad > thing. This sounds like a weird statement to make in this unqualified form. Emacs is not in such a bad state that you can just "stir things up" anywhere and expect an improvement to be the result. -- David Kastrup