> From: Filipe Silva <filipe.silva@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 16:35:02 -0300
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> > Sorry, it's too late for emacs-25 to get such changes. I would
> > instead suggest that the developers of vim-empty-lines-mode modify the
> > offending code to not hit on this problem.
>
> Really Eli? I've just cherry-picked your commit into emacs-25 branch and it's working wonderfully. I'm happy
> to mantain my own local branch, but just curious about the rationale.
The rationale is that emacs-25 is the release branch which gets only
very safe and urgent code changes, and changes in documentation. We
could revisit this when/if release of Emacs 25.3 from that branch is
being considered.