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: Add M-x occur to the menu-bar Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:19:03 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3F69E6FF.9050702@yahoo.com> <4n8yjto16h.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nisixjibl.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> <20040127230323.GB5407@fencepost> <4n7jzc919v.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nn085i7nl.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> <4noese37h0.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nbrodxwqm.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> <4n8yjcccvj.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nwu6sp7ni.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B2GTw-0002Rq-00 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 22:15:44 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B2GTw-0005ss-00 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 22:15:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B24Ga-00060r-TE for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 03:13:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B21qm-00014C-V3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 00:38:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B1Wgu-0002IQ-QP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:22:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B1Wgu-0002I7-1e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:22:04 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1B1Wdz-0001oN-8r; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:19:03 -0500 Original-To: Ted Zlatanov In-reply-to: <4nk71zma95.fsf@lifelogs.com> (message from Ted Zlatanov on Fri, 05 Mar 2004 13:14:46 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20402 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20402 I'm not opposed to adding this as a future option, but I don't want to complicate the intentionally simple interface to next-error (set next-error-function and next-error-last-buffer, that's it). I think a list of buffers would complicate life for users and developers alike, without adding much functionality. It would be especially bad for backward compatibility, which RMS insists on. There's a misunderstanding here. I am not saying this change must be entirely "backward compatibility". The intended feature, making next-error handle Occur buffers, is an incompatible change, but that is ok. Rather, the point is to get the behavior for choice of buffers that will *seem right and convenient to the user*. Someone pointed out that the stack idea might not really offer much benefit, though.