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: About `--' (was Re: filenotify.el) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:59:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87d2ra9z4x.fsf@gmx.de> <1383316.4Bc292dOgY@descartes> <87vc52yq04.fsf@gmx.de> <4199085.Bycd8r9Vun@descartes> <8761x12x4k.fsf@gmx.de> <878v1x71lb.fsf_-_@rosalinde.fritz.box> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372456766 20252 80.91.229.3 (28 Jun 2013 21:59:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 21:59:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ruediger@c-plusplus.de, stephen.berman@gmx.net, michael.albinus@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Josh Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 28 23:59:28 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UsghU-0007Kq-1n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 23:59:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34979 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsghT-0003gh-PO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:59:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34873) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsghQ-0003gT-Ed for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:59:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsghP-0007Bj-Hq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:59:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53300) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsghP-0007Bf-Fd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:59:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsghN-0005Vs-QV; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:59:22 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Josh on Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:19:39 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:161252 Archived-At: [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. It would be great if more of these generally useful functions were "promoted" from the libraries where they originated into the core of Emacs, stripped of package prefixes and properly documented in the Emacs or Elisp info manuals in order to make them more discoverable for use elsewhere. The downside of this is that it would require documenting all these functions in the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, which is already unwieldy. It might be better for people to reinvent these as needed. Or put them in a separate category with the prefix `aux-' and document them in a different manual. -- 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 Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.