From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Add some aliases for re-related functions Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 23:08:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <7976B8C1-AFC7-4662-B750-6492EB70C0D5@gmail.com> <29721725-0696-4dcf-b5de-36924a5de259@default> <3777996c-7b3f-4d44-9636-f18aaff76a65@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="90243"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: casouri@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 04 05:10:54 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRVN-000NNr-6C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 05:10:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59604 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRVL-0002IF-2u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:10:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35452) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRTV-0007hC-RX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:08:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44117) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRTV-0004dH-GK; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:08:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jVRTS-0006jn-00; Sun, 03 May 2020 23:08:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <3777996c-7b3f-4d44-9636-f18aaff76a65@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 2 May 2020 21:37:01 -0700 (PDT)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248771 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. ]]] > > > I really cannot wait till you get to renaming > > > functions concerning lines: `line-...' or > > > perhaps `lines-...'. And their aliases... > > > > I must say I find this mildly offensive. > > It's basically a strawman argument. > It was tongue-in-cheek (whimsical exaggeration), > not a serious argument (unless someone actually > does think it could/should be done for lines). Whimsical exaggeration, when it occurs in the contest of a disagreement, can easily be percieved by the one disagreed with as an unfair criticism of something perse didn't say. I suggest we all make an point of avoiding exaggeration in discussions where there is a disagreement or argument going on. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)