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: Should undefined behavior be encouraged in Emacs? Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:30:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4E89124D.8070405@cs.ucla.edu> <4E895885.5060201@online.de> <87ehyu1qk7.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <4E89794F.8040706@online.de> <87zkheg8xc.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317922289 26099 80.91.229.12 (6 Oct 2011 17:31:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 17:31:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: andreas.roehler@online.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 06 19:31:25 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBrmz-0006Jx-6g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:31:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44412 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBrmy-0005nP-N2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:31:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49818) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBrmv-0005nG-OF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:31:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBrmr-0002Hr-B2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:31:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:55516) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBrmr-0002Hn-5p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:31:13 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBrmW-00075r-Kl; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:30:53 -0400 In-reply-to: <87zkheg8xc.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) 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: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144624 Archived-At: AIUI, Richard philosophically disagrees with the whole idea of active regions, but they were a feature greatly desired by a large fraction of users. That's not the case. Philosophically, I have no objection to them. They turn out to be a pain in practice. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/