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: [Emacs-diffs] master 19e09cf: Ensure redisplay after evaluation Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:18:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20151106192313.30794.29154@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <83oaf4o4gs.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447179541 25461 80.91.229.3 (10 Nov 2015 18:19:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:19:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 10 19:18:51 2015 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 1ZwDVD-0003Yx-QX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 19:18:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34744 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwDVD-0002W4-Jd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:18:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36027) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwDV9-0002VZ-1P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:18:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwDV8-0003EC-90 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:18:39 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38833) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwDV6-0003CB-06; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:18:36 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwDV5-0002PJ-77; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:18:35 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 09 Nov 2015 20:16:12 -0500) 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:193907 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. ]]] > You lost me here. What I'm suggesting is to add a hook that's called > when some variables are modified. So to me it sounds just like advice: as > long as you don't use this hook, Emacs's behavior is unchanged. Yes, the two issues are similar. > And just like with an advice, if you use such a hook in your ~/.emacs > you can shoot yourself in the foot, but if you use this is one of your > package, you might shoot the foot of your users. Not just them. You might shoot the foot of anyone that tries to debug a problem that is reported by the users of your package. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.