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: Possible change to startup.el Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:20:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87fyy3hvxl.fsf@jurta.org> <01c53c28$Blat.v2.4$1bd305e0@zahav.net.il> <87k6ndkv98.fsf@jurta.org> <01c53cda$Blat.v2.4$4eb132e0@zahav.net.il> <85is2q5iwl.fsf@gnu.org> <85ll7l0vxm.fsf@gnu.org> <85mzrxg35u.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113766808 8260 80.91.229.2 (17 Apr 2005 19:40:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:40:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 17 21:40:06 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNFcY-00048V-4z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:39:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNFgV-0007lU-UB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:43:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DNFVv-0004vs-3T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:33:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DNFVi-0004qT-52 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:32:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNFVf-0004i6-4z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:32:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DNFLD-0002bD-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:22:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DNFJX-0005WA-04; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:20:15 -0400 Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: <85mzrxg35u.fsf@gnu.org> (message from David Kastrup on Sun, 17 Apr 2005 11:31:41 +0200) 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36061 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36061 > The interface that has been proposed is defined so as to make > complete informatoin available about what is or isn't supported. > That makes it so complex to implement--to complex to be considered > for now, and undesirable even for later. I can't quite see why having complete information about what is or isn't supported would be undesirable for later. You misunderstood what I said. I did not say the feature was undesirable, I said the complexity to implement it was undesirable. It seems reasonable to solve this task once, within Emacs. I hope to avoid solving it ever, if possible.