From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug #25608 and the comment-cache branch Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2017 07:54:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20170202202418.GA2505@acm> <9d0b3156-e8b2-c2d8-0d0c-a025861e5e0c@yandex.ru> <20170203164457.GB2250@acm> <20170204110259.GB2047@acm> <20170206200116.GD3568@acm> <20170207212417.GC2490@acm> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1486558527 1972 195.159.176.226 (8 Feb 2017 12:55:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 12:55:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 08 13:55:23 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cbRmN-0000Ju-Cs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2017 13:55:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59097 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbRmT-0002BM-3y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2017 07:55:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51317) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbRlg-0002B8-PL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2017 07:54:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbRld-00048p-OO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2017 07:54:40 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:22846) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbRld-00048W-If for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2017 07:54:37 -0500 Original-Received: from 45-72-235-254.cpe.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([45.72.235.254]) by smtp.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 08 Feb 2017 07:54:35 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id BCBFC657EE; Wed, 8 Feb 2017 07:54:34 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20170207212417.GC2490@acm> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Tue, 7 Feb 2017 21:24:17 +0000") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:212130 Archived-At: > As a matter of interest, what was the real use case for this, how often > do you do it, and how big would the loss be if you couldn't do it any > more? I'm not worried about breaking users's expectations in this regard. The problem is with packages's expectations. We need packages to be able to get "the other" behavior. Stefan