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: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 13:54:56 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084214255 26954 80.91.224.253 (10 May 2004 18:37:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 18:37:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon May 10 20:37:31 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNFed-00062R-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 20:37:31 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNFed-0007wB-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 20:37:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BNFPV-0003KX-1p for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 14:21:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNFHx-0001uV-6a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 14:14:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNEzR-0003dG-QE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 13:55:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BNEzR-0003d4-9S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 13:54:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BNEzQ-00084I-RU; Mon, 10 May 2004 13:54:56 -0400 Original-To: John Wiegley In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Sun, 09 May 2004 22:59:11 -0700) 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:23066 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23066 I deliberately decided not to add this feature to Emacs because it tends to lead to a demand for lots more features to "make it complete", and that ultimately leads to a lot more complexity. For most purposes, reading files into buffers is just as good. Why do you think we should add this feature now?