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: Round-tripping key definitions Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 23:44:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: <875yswtzxh.fsf@gnus.org> <87o86ohzyv.fsf@gnus.org> <87ilwqqjx3.fsf@yahoo.com> 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="11658"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: psainty@orcon.net.nz, larsi@gnus.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 19 05:45:59 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 1mnvmg-0002nt-N4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2021 05:45:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35736 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mnvme-0000lk-8d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 23:45:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:57406) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mnvlA-00088r-5Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 23:44:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=48914 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mnvl8-00014m-4v; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 23:44:22 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=XJ/krsbiYKOu1L7V3oHpRhTS1KE9x+cszsNgIdv2aUw=; b=Up9Y9tQKTsJz 9wj7/mWi54wbcSz6DEb6/h17Pa9F7OSMohC2+o8fGLwiEJ+G6yfEpLWgLmUY7udzkYSGnIlR5yhne EbVuSHJpsQeOSj6ei6+oUajueJAvy1mWIDzajUW+OASYrdFoLDemcK57X0zy262o1iKZHqziKo8Hc vwxlFv+OujiVVATuDG3N+BxXktflg1vb3qZzlUznIBTaV4oU3/wnOK7u53HfY6bndcnOUgC2IeqVE qtDsPO6inJ85Z4Q2sNK7QuynMQM9QFUdQzQxPgv0jS/cf1ZYIc0SDYPs06kHckgW+ffn6nRmWfdIE dsyI5ltbT12Dq9RyfG0c4w==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mnvl8-0002tN-2u; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 23:44:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87ilwqqjx3.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Thu, 18 Nov 2021 10:25:44 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:279704 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 would break a lot of old code. > > > > I thought so too, but I've been playing with a quick&dirty patch to > > see how much breakage it introduces and it seems it's not nearly as > > bad as I thought. I'm starting to believe that maybe we could pull it > > off, tho I haven't had enough experience with it yet to be sure. We can't get an idea of the old code that this would break by checking today's version of master. Much of the old code people use was never included in Emacs. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)