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: Why on earth is abbrev baked into the C code? Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:21:36 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4D69BFD2.7060606@gmail.com> <4D6BF0D7.3080005@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299086515 7447 80.91.229.12 (2 Mar 2011 17:21:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 17:21:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 02 18:21:49 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PupkC-0001uY-4M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:21:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41886 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PupkB-0002rf-7u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:21:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60771 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pupk2-0002ox-O6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:21:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pupk1-0007eb-0R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:21:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:58107) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pupk0-0007eW-U4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:21:36 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pupk0-0002Nh-Kt; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:21:36 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Daniel Colascione on Tue, 1 Mar 2011 13:08:55 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:136718 Archived-At: Why on earth is abbrev baked into the C code? For speed: I did not want SPC to run Lisp code in the usual case. Maybe nowadays it would be acceptably fast. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org