From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: bastienguerry@googlemail.com, ams@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: message-mode is now default?
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:37:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1MSO9K-00030v-Go@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwviqhq14u9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:48:21 -0400)
> Making message-mode the default is not a problem for people
> who already use it, it is a problem for people who are not using it.
> So making things smoother for these people is a good idea IMHO.
This is a development branch. Breakage should be expected.
The supposed argument for this change was that Message mode was a
compatible extension of Mail mode. Now that someone listed dozens of
incompatibilities, this response seems to disregard the fact that that
argument is not valid.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-19 4:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-17 12:43 message-mode is now default? Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-17 13:01 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-17 13:41 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-18 8:59 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-17 14:14 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-07-17 15:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-17 20:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 8:59 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-18 0:29 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-18 1:19 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-18 5:51 ` Bastien
2009-07-18 6:52 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2009-07-18 13:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-19 11:41 ` Differences between mail-mode and message-mode (was: message-mode is now default?) Reiner Steib
2009-07-19 12:32 ` Differences between mail-mode and message-mode Sven Joachim
2009-07-19 17:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-19 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-22 7:35 ` Differences between mail-mode and message-mode (was: message-mode is now default?) Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-22 18:46 ` Differences between mail-mode and message-mode Reiner Steib
2009-07-23 3:05 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-23 5:03 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-03 19:57 ` message-mode is now default? Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-04 6:12 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-18 13:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-18 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-18 15:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-18 15:33 ` David Kastrup
2009-07-18 15:44 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-18 16:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-18 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-19 0:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-19 9:09 ` David Kastrup
2009-07-19 10:52 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-19 11:10 ` David Kastrup
2009-07-19 11:16 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-07-19 14:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-20 12:33 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-20 13:29 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-07-20 14:20 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-20 16:32 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-21 9:05 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-22 3:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-20 15:32 ` Reiner Steib
2009-07-19 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-21 9:05 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-21 10:13 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-23 13:46 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-19 4:37 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2009-07-19 4:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-19 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-19 23:21 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-19 4:59 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-19 23:21 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-20 16:46 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-20 20:42 ` Reiner Steib
2009-07-19 8:07 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-19 9:32 ` David Kastrup
2009-07-19 10:24 ` Bastien
2009-07-19 10:52 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-19 11:56 ` Differences between mail-mode and message-mode - sending mail (was: message-mode is now default?) Reiner Steib
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