From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: File modes facilities. Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:51:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87hdbdxo94.fsf@mahaena.lrde> <87d5m1qm8w.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <877jc92o37.fsf@mahaena.lrde> <17238.50816.352274.312799@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87u0fd9let.fsf@mahaena.lrde> <87oe5jmu9j.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129917242 18937 80.91.229.2 (21 Oct 2005 17:54:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:54:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, michael.cadilhac-@t-lrde.epita.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 21 19:53:52 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ET14U-0006xr-4K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:52:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ET14T-00049P-KY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:52:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ET13o-0003ww-2P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:52:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ET13l-0003wF-R2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:52:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ET13k-0003w2-Tq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:52:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ET13l-0006LZ-7b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:52:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1ET13O-0006ZE-Gp; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:51:50 -0400 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-reply-to: <87oe5jmu9j.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:21:45 -0400) 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:44522 Archived-At: Agreed. I actually firmly believe that we should be able to provide elisp code for the interactive spec of a C function. This would also allow us to get rid of the load vs load-file distinction and to improve various other commands implemented in C where the minibuffer query only provides a fairly dull default. It is a good idea for sometime later. It would be possible to make one of load-file and load-library be the same as `load', but we would still need two commands for loading, since the motive for them is to have two different ways of reading the argument.