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: Recentish C-s M-y change Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2021 01:01:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <<87r1na4tyu.fsf@gnus.org>> <<87tus6tj7s.fsf@mail.linkov.net>> <<87a6txigm1.fsf@gnus.org>> <<874kk5lzew.fsf@mail.linkov.net>> <> <<87eej8ifll.fsf@mail.linkov.net>> <> <<87h7o3k5b5.fsf@mail.linkov.net>> <> <> <83wnwwg8iu.fsf@gnu.org> <837dovg687.fsf@gnu.org> 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="40902"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ams@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net, larsi@gnus.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 03 07:06:13 2021 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 1kvwWr-000AWE-AA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2021 07:06:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43364 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kvwWq-0000uC-CL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2021 01:06:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40262) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kvwTU-0005yz-Hj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2021 01:02:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37718) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kvwTT-00048q-B0; Sun, 03 Jan 2021 01:02:43 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kvwSh-00060O-Ik; Sun, 03 Jan 2021 01:01:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <837dovg687.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 02 Jan 2021 09:15:04 +0200) 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:262349 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 probably won't read a thread that discusses how to fix a bug. > > I would not expect a decision about a change in features to be > > made in such a thread. > That expectation is incorrect, both factually and in principle. I think we are failing to communicate. I described an expectation that I use to reduce the amount of work I have to do. Whether it is ever mistaken is simply not the point. I expect that many other people on this list skip threads when the thread topic does not seem interesting. They too need to find ways to reduce how much they have to read. -- 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)