From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display-completion-list should not strip text properties Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:47:20 -0400 Message-ID: <87mz1l36h3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <878xd8dw3d.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <17941.35328.281122.300772@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <5y7isq2tho.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87d52ifekm.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175874476 21295 80.91.229.12 (6 Apr 2007 15:47:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:47:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 06 17:47:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HZpwQ-00026h-7y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:01:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HZpzu-0005Oi-FE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:05:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HZpzr-0005Od-Ck for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:05:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HZpzq-0005OV-3l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:05:02 -0400 Original-Received: from south-station-annex.mit.edu ([18.72.1.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HZpwK-00070I-SS; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:01:25 -0400 Original-Received: from central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (CENTRAL-CITY-CARRIER-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.72]) by south-station-annex.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l36F1Hug020467; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 11:01:18 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (OUTGOING-LEGACY.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.104]) by central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l36ElLrk029704; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 10:47:24 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from localhost (SYDNEYPACIFIC-FIVE-FORTY-FIVE.MIT.EDU [18.95.7.34]) ) by outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id l36ElLFx012341; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 10:47:21 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from cyd by localhost with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HZpii-0001QO-00; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:47:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri\, 06 Apr 2007 11\:41\:19 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-detected-kernel: Solaris 9.1 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:69125 Archived-At: > If we go this way, it is better that the person who reimplements > Kevin's changes is someone other than you, because you looked too > close into his code and may inadvertently write identical or very > similar code. To avoid possible legal complications, a better way is > this: you describe here, in plain English, what the changes do, and > someone else codes that in Lisp. That way, copyright-related claims > will not hold, since the chances that the other person's > implementation will be identical are virtually non-existent, and the > ideas of the changes are not copyrightable. True enough. Would anyone like to volunteer for task of reimplementing grep-find and read-feature? The latter ought to take all of five minutes, but the former may take up to an hour because it is more intricate.