From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Can we make set_point_both less expensive? Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:11:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <<5505E34C.4000106@dancol.org> > <<838uex1u1m.fsf@gnu.org> > <<8361a029p2.fsf@gnu.org> <83vbi0zukw.fsf@gnu.org>> <<55071E92.1050700@dancol.org> <83twxkztkn.fsf@gnu.org>> <<5507219D.2010504@dancol.org> <83lhiwzq3y.fsf@gnu.org>> <<5507408D.1040104@dancol.org>> <<83h9tkyucg.fsf@gnu.org>> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426605340 4049 80.91.229.3 (17 Mar 2015 15:15:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:15:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 17 16:15:28 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YXtDG-0006tP-5w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:15:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55317 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXtDD-0001c7-Ft for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:15:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45328) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXt9Y-0003YX-Fj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:11:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXt9X-0004eP-Ln for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:11:32 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:35586) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXt9S-0004ab-1p; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:11:26 -0400 Original-Received: from aserv0021.oracle.com (aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id t2HFBGV7028844 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:11:17 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7021.oracle.com (aserz7021.oracle.com [141.146.126.230]) by aserv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t2HFBFKQ029949 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:11:15 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0014.oracle.com (abhmp0014.oracle.com [141.146.116.20]) by aserz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t2HFBF9t016600; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:11:15 GMT In-Reply-To: <<83h9tkyucg.fsf@gnu.org>> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183955 Archived-At: > There are a lot of features in Emacs that might make little sense to > me or you or someone else. Removing features just because of that, or > because we think they don't have use cases that are valid in our eyes, > is not a practice I'd recommend. At least, we never did that in > Emacs, AFAIR. Features might be deprecated because they cause real > damage to Emacs development, but even then we do that very cautiously > and slowly. >=20 > My $0.02, anyway. Please add my 2c as well. (Independent of any consideration of this particular feature.)