From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: sand@priss.frightenedpiglet.com, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.50; `mode-name' variable docs out of date WRT features
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:50:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JAMiB-0007wa-Ua@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr6h19brz.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:55:45 -0500)
> Stefan, could you redo that differently, then ack?
No, it'd be a step backward.
If your aim was to change the meaning of the variable mode-name to
allow any mode-line spec, you implemented just a part of that change.
You didn't change the documentation, and you didn't fix the code that
expects the value to be a string. The result is broken. It needs to
be fixed somehow. We need to either fully implement this change in
mode-name, or not implement it at all.
There are several places in Emacs that assume it is a string. And the
change would be an incompatible change. So unless there is some
strong reason to make the change, better we should undo the incomplete
change.
Can you offer a strong reason?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-03 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-30 19:12 23.0.50; `mode-name' variable docs out of date WRT features sand
2007-12-31 14:42 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-02 2:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-02 3:06 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-02 4:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-03 9:50 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2008-01-10 2:16 ` Glenn Morris
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