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: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 22:52:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <831ro2tqqx.fsf@gnu.org> <4a1fd3f4-df92-c756-9874-4d07b54148ac@yandex.ru> <83v9lesapw.fsf@gnu.org> <83pnbms9m8.fsf@gnu.org> <83a72qs4z2.fsf@gnu.org> <83wo5uqoh5.fsf@gnu.org> <838si9qf7s.fsf@gnu.org> <83pnblov3t.fsf@gnu.org> <83ftcfojsg.fsf@gnu.org> 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="14314"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, joaotavora@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 05 04:54:32 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 1jVnj5-0003ae-PP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 May 2020 04:54:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52000 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVnj4-0003LP-N7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:54:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33732) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVngk-0000VS-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:52:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45401) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVngk-0003gZ-Gn; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:52:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jVngj-00061U-8X; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:52:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83ftcfojsg.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 04 May 2020 17:29:35 +0300) 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:248933 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 think we could generate API lists like these > > automatically from the text of the Emacs Lisp Ref Manual. > > Just search through the chosen node (and its subnodes) for > > definition constructs, and process them to get calling sequences. > What would you suggest to do with the generated list? How would users > access it? There is no need for us to try to answer that. The people who want that kind of interface are the people who should work out the details. They can try implementing it in various ways, decide what they prefer, and offer us the code for it. > The main motivation for "renaming" was to have completion find those > names. People who advance that proposal don't want to use apropos > instead of completion. So we will need to extend the completion to do > the same trick you had in mind for apropos. That won't be painful. It isn't a fundamental or incompatible change. It would take some work to implement -- but the people who want it can do that work. -- 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)