From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: arstoffel@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ELPA submission: python-import
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 23:28:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1oHzcf-0008BI-DX@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwnbv7v6m.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 29 Jul 2022 12:25:53 -0400)
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> FWIW, I don't find those to be good reasons to keep the code separate.
> It's quite common for some parts of the functionality of a major modes
> to be less thorough (e.g. depend on the presence of some unusual tool,
> or depend on specific conventions, ...): it's not ideal, but it's better
> than nothing, and also makes it "obvious" where to improve the code.
> IOW it can encourage further improvements.
I don't use Python, and I don't know what isort or pyflakes do,
but if they are not extremely complicated we could write Lisp code
to do the job this facility needs.
Putting this feature in a separate package would have two disadvantages:
* It would make Emacs more complex.
* It would discourage users from finding out about the feature.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-31 3:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-29 14:15 ELPA submission: python-import Augusto Stoffel
2022-07-29 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-29 15:35 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-07-29 16:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-30 8:56 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-07-31 3:28 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-07-31 9:08 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-07-29 15:53 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-07-30 9:07 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-07-30 9:12 ` Visuwesh
2022-07-30 11:14 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-07-30 11:58 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-07-30 19:01 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-07-31 9:22 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-07-31 3:32 ` Richard Stallman
2022-07-31 9:20 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-07-31 9:26 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-07-31 10:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-31 3:28 ` Richard Stallman
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