From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: so-long and special major modes Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2020 01:48:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: <06b2b38e-1d44-5a7e-b1c0-aac489989fde@orcon.net.nz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5203"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Phil Sainty Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 09 07:49:21 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 1kmtHt-0001El-J6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2020 07:49:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38018 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kmtHs-0008As-Li for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2020 01:49:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55156) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kmtGz-0007jb-0C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2020 01:48:25 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41473) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kmtGx-0005F6-Ru; Wed, 09 Dec 2020 01:48:23 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kmtGw-0002p3-2D; Wed, 09 Dec 2020 01:48:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <06b2b38e-1d44-5a7e-b1c0-aac489989fde@orcon.net.nz> (message from Phil Sainty on Wed, 9 Dec 2020 09:08:45 +1300) 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:260601 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. ]]] > In general I felt it was necessary to white-list the modes for which > it is acceptable for so-long to take action, because I don't think it's > possible to automatically detect every mode in which it might be > problematic. How about if you try activating for all except special modes? It MIGHT turn out to be exactly right. And if not, you can override as needed. -- 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)