From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: sort-first arg to map-keymap Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:46:00 -0500 Message-ID: <87acbagxq3.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <87acbcjsvq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1143575185 4329 80.91.229.2 (28 Mar 2006 19:46:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:46:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 28 21:46:22 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FOK8v-00017l-O5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:46:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FOK8v-0008Kt-7z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:46:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FOK8l-0008JU-3M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:46:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FOK8j-0008IR-Nz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:46:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FOK8j-0008IO-GS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:46:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.93] (helo=tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FOKAU-0005PA-3s; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:47:54 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor ([70.55.143.15]) by tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20060328194602.NIAP13653.tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:46:02 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DC0EED75FA; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:46:00 -0500 (EST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:33:47 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:52170 Archived-At: > As best as I can tell, it comes from emacs-lisp/lucid.el which is > a brittle package which tries to provide very coarse XEmacs > compatibility; but XEmacs's `map-keymap' function doesn't behave like > ours anyway (it doesn't apply the function to the keymap's parents, > for one thing), and lucid.el has never been very highly used, so it > seems better to keep its brittle code in lucid.el than to move it to > subr.el. > You may be right, but why change this now? Just because the code (which is new in Emacs-22's subr.el) is (as mentioned) brittle, so it may bite us down the road. Stefan