From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Problems with debug-on-entry in the Lisp debugger. Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:47:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87sm37n2bv.fsf@xs4all.nl> <87is42c8yp.fsf@xs4all.nl> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110507017 21419 80.91.229.2 (11 Mar 2005 02:10:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:10:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 11 03:10:16 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9ZaE-0003p3-18 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 03:08:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9ZpD-0005mf-97 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:24:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D9ZlU-0004KA-0A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:20:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D9ZlL-0004FV-3Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:20:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9ZlK-0004Au-Hj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:20:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D9ZFu-0000TF-7M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:47:58 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1D9ZFt-00049n-GZ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:47:57 -0500 Original-To: Kevin Rodgers In-reply-to: (message from Kevin Rodgers on Wed, 09 Mar 2005 17:26:12 -0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34453 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34453 Maybe not now, but an elegant rewrite may enable changes to make Emacs more powerful and better in the future. I am not saying these are useless, I am saying that people focus too much on making Emacs "more powerful", disregarding other kinds of improvements that we need. Most of the TODO list items are not of that kind. The fact is that very few of the TODO list entries have ever been done.