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: Confused by y-or-n-p Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:01:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <834kkcr1eo.fsf@gnu.org> <43b24209-fa65-0e26-7cbd-f99175a7ffd8@gmx.at> <87wnx7j5is.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83im8qnyca.fsf@gnu.org> <83bleinmse.fsf@gnu.org> <56435592-d2d0-5fb6-977f-01e1931da835@gmx.at> <87k0t38g1z.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83czyvkts6.fsf@gnu.org> <87bleetirr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87y2hhri3n.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83pn2tkfg8.fsf@gnu.org> <871rf7ippu.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83a6trg6mc.fsf@gnu.org> <87im8f951f.fsf@gnus.org> <83lfdacapo.fsf@gnu.org> <831rf0d9uq.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="24698"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, larsi@gnus.org, juri@linkov.net, 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 Wed Jan 06 06:02:49 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 1kx0y9-0006Jt-84 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 06:02:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38332 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kx0y8-0000Vx-6H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:02:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56990) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kx0wf-0007TD-86 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:01:18 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52577) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kx0wd-0003wY-Th; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:01:16 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kx0wb-0001qu-1z; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:01:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: <831rf0d9uq.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:01:49 +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:262562 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. ]]] > > That's not difficult. People who want to make the new behavior the default > > will be motivated to conduct the inquiry. > If they are motivated enough, we don't need any rules for that, we > just should continue behaving as we did, because starting a discussion > on emacs-devel about any issue related to Emacs is always possible > (and happens already). You CAN start a discussion on emacs-devel, but in order to be aware there is a need for one, you would need to subscribe to bug-gnu-emacs AND follow discussion of dealing with a particular bug. The point of my rule simply to ensure that the readers of emacs-devel see that there is an interface change is being proposed. -- 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)