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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 5ac7b48: Lift define-prefix-command to Lisp
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 10:51:38 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkm=nvd29Dpk2vCCb3psU63EB0hzwsxz9KjebTjLTNtFcKA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83wnwnigux.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> This question is pertinent when someone suggests a new function or
> feature.  When talking about obsoleting an existing one, the right
> question is "does it do any harm, or do a bad job, or present some
> significant maintenance burden?"

In this case, it seems that this "feature" is indeed doing a bad job.

To put it more clearly, it seems to be doing some convoluted gymnastics
that are no longer necessary.  Hysterical raisins?



  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-08 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20210108141622.18118.12423@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20210108141623.B325320BD3@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2021-01-08 14:51   ` master 5ac7b48: Lift define-prefix-command to Lisp Stefan Monnier
2021-01-08 15:01     ` Stefan Kangas
2021-01-08 15:11       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-08 15:32       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-08 16:51         ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-01-08 18:33           ` Eli Zaretskii

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