From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Adding email address support to thingatpt.el.
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:49:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877iu34973.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMEEEGCPAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue\, 27 Feb 2007 06\:49\:21 -0800")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> I haven't followed all of this, and I have no special knowledge of this. It
> sounds as if:
>
> - The spec allows stuff that most people don't use, and that many people and
> programs try to interpret as delimiters.
>
> - If the code fits the spec completely, then many users would be
> inconvenienced.
>
> - If the code doesn't fit the spec completely, then some people will
> complain and file bugs.
>
> Why not have the code do both, with a user option to choose the behavior you
> want? Then pick the default value of the option to inconvenience the fewest
> users.
Sounds like the best plan to me, given that we must compromise between
opposing needs here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-27 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-25 19:25 Adding email address support to thingatpt.el Karl Fogel
2007-02-25 10:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-02-26 3:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-26 13:31 ` Karl Fogel
2007-02-26 18:00 ` Andreas Roehler
2007-02-27 12:08 ` Karl Fogel
2007-02-27 7:37 ` Andreas Roehler
2007-02-27 14:49 ` Drew Adams
2007-02-27 20:49 ` Karl Fogel [this message]
2007-02-27 17:19 ` Karl Fogel
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