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: window-buffer-change-functions Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 22:43:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83o86hyild.fsf@gnu.org> <877d1ycbom.fsf@gnus.org> <835yhivx39.fsf@gnu.org> <83v8piuh5k.fsf@gnu.org> <2f85eda92184de27e10572e6b2320885@webmail.orcon.net.nz> <83pmfpv4fs.fsf@gnu.org> <7110e0330e878c144a6364a8e6ad651c@webmail.orcon.net.nz> <83fsgkszcv.fsf@gnu.org> <1a6028ed-73bd-7d5f-c206-8061bdc9edd0@gmx.at> <83fsgir551.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="36801"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 24 04:44:50 2022 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 1obv9t-0009MI-J0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2022 04:44:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33718 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1obv9s-0006Op-43 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 22:44:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54546) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1obv8v-00053c-FU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 22:43:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60176) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1obv8u-0002p3-LF; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 22:43:48 -0400 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=5ah9o3Wkws7aBkTa3Pq6W2kW2rVSZwCqAZZRb/xxLAk=; b=rhyi+gYSbpDw kOvMkcpk7FZ7S4E6ZRdZrkkgRMoozVCQqcBnVDzhfpw50Prswk3xBhVXAbqu7gpNKRANEkd6/DUBa 4GRA1mEwxNH3GGdCqUhgSS72B+p7wirNnO21fTDCQ0JXoL4KOhs0Jo52OVPhunCojuwpgnxNKNksc fTWkNIL/qXzbwozmrXATO3e4R6ynJbxoFRi6HRwjViXFPDKsMmwk5FZb8tQGaUS5pqdM9lNyEeay3 OxPtiqrSxBP0aFPzVBsg0kX+j1BzY1xnGD+W9lLDEV5vTKEeJ+O0sLPqdSoThh//X+p7Sz5rKECy2 lLsz3pExGGxhcDz3RQZxrQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1obv8t-0001W9-Po; Fri, 23 Sep 2022 22:43:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83fsgir551.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 23 Sep 2022 09:12:10 +0300) 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:296103 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. ]]] > > Special exceptions that undermine the meaning of a variable's value, > > or any general design principle, cause conceptual confusion that will > > get us in trouble. > I think I agree, but could you please explain why you think this > variable violates that principle? Because I don't think I see that. I don't know how to explain it, because it is so blatant that I don't see where the disagreement could be. -- 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)