From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-trunk-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/NEWS
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:15:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Cctya-0007m1-VB@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y8g8oyry.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 08 Dec 2004 23:59:40 -0500)
> , but you'll also lose flexibility since it won't be possible to
> specify a default for a subset of the face spec.
> How much is that flexibility worth, in practice?
> Which cases use it?
Well, to me when you replace 1 simple concept with 2 less powerful ones,
On grounds of principle, it is clear what is better. Making defface
follow the general practice of the rest of Lisp is more important than
making it more powerful to write defface specs in a terser way.
When I read that statement about flexibility, I thought you were
making a practical argument that real defspecs would be more complex
and harder to read. Can you show me a real practical loss from this
change?
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-12-08 4:40 ` [Emacs-trunk-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/NEWS Richard Stallman
2004-12-08 5:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-09 4:42 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-09 4:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-09 9:17 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-12-09 14:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-10 23:15 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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