From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: skeleton.el _ versus @ Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 14:26:29 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200303242005.h2OK57gr013285@rum.cs.yale.edu> <1048554010.20622.66.camel@zircon><1049242082.66437.15.camel@zircon> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049313464 3219 80.91.224.249 (2 Apr 2003 19:57:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 19:57:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 02 21:57:42 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 190oMg-0000pn-00 for ; Wed, 02 Apr 2003 21:57:42 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 190oNr-0002em-00 for ; Wed, 02 Apr 2003 21:58:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 190oJM-0001D4-02 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2003 14:54:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 190nuP-0002WW-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2003 14:28:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 190ntC-0001m4-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2003 14:27:15 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.10.13) id 190nsT-0001TA-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2003 14:26:29 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 190nsT-0002vn-00; Wed, 02 Apr 2003 14:26:29 -0500 Original-To: Joe Kelsey In-reply-to: <1049242082.66437.15.camel@zircon> (message from Joe Kelsey on 01 Apr 2003 16:08:03 -0800) Original-cc: occitan@esperanto.org Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12847 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12847 I believe that the correct fix is for *you* to change *your* skeletons to be: (nil "fun f (" @ ")" \n "{" \n _ "}" (setq skeleton-point (pop skeleton-positions)) It makes more sense for you since you are using @ incorrectly. Simply because you have taken advantage of a programming error in the past does not mean you can continue to do so in the future. If we are agreed that skeleton's behavior really ought to be different, then it might be ok to say this to some of the users. But I don't think we are agreed on that.