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: Overlay arrow in *compilation* and *grep* buffers Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 20:26:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <01c548ba$Blat.v2.4$e4827900@zahav.net.il> <01c54909$Blat.v2.4$070f3e60@zahav.net.il> <01c54c2b$Blat.v2.4$e15e8560@zahav.net.il> <17009.19855.763603.487800@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <01c54c8a$Blat.v2.4$6afa17e0@zahav.net.il> <17009.62951.957607.360268@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <87oebkw22l.fsf@jurta.org> <17027.16429.215672.493633@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <87is1nlnt1.fsf@jurta.org> <01c55782$Blat.v2.4$4616ee00@zahav.net.il> <17028.21709.35999.263715@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <01c557bf$Blat.v2.4$d25541e0@zahav.net.il> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116030899 13699 80.91.229.2 (14 May 2005 00:34:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 00:34:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 14 02:42:57 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWkk1-0005dL-6G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 May 2005 02:42:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWklX-0008LD-1Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 20:44:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DWkju-0007RU-Ay for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 20:42:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DWkcz-00051P-5U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 20:35:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWkct-0004yN-2j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 20:35:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DWkaq-0007Wv-VW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 20:33:25 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DWkTq-0005z0-PH; Fri, 13 May 2005 20:26:10 -0400 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-reply-to: <01c557bf$Blat.v2.4$d25541e0@zahav.net.il> (eliz@gnu.org) 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:37103 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37103 We've been through this time and again. Some recent examples include the overlay arrow in compilation buffers, font-lock changes wrt comment delimiters, ispell vs aspell invocation, etc. How many more such incidents are needed before people will understand that THERE ARE NO SMALL CHANGES before a release? Now is the right time to make some kinds of changes, those that correct annoyances and wrinkles in the features we have added.