From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fwd: Flymake and the 'face' property Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 03:23:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20190128152540.6870.46132@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20190128152541.12A4D20B50@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <30bm401x64.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83r2cw35jq.fsf@gnu.org> <83munk33gj.fsf@gnu.org> <83h8dr2yll.fsf@gnu.org> <83bm3z2vyv.fsf@gnu.org> <83zhri17dg.fsf@gnu.org> <837eel1ook.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="58512"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 02 09:23:45 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gpqaX-000F8S-Cl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2019 09:23:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39252 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gpqaW-0000Vh-7o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2019 03:23:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:46258) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gpqaQ-0000Vc-UF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2019 03:23:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gpqaG-00045X-BA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2019 03:23:36 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:42244) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gpqa9-0003wW-3O; Sat, 02 Feb 2019 03:23:22 -0500 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id x128NA0A018093; Sat, 2 Feb 2019 03:23:11 -0500 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E6187AE13D; Sat, 2 Feb 2019 03:23:09 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <837eel1ook.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 31 Jan 2019 05:38:51 +0200") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6474=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6474> : inlines <7010> : streams <1811851> : uri <2789425> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 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:232902 Archived-At: > I don't want us to make changes for the sake of changes in a corner > issue that touches on the display code. That's from POV a good reason > to discourage people from making such changes. It should be a very cosmetic change, basically search&replace with the only trick being in making sure we touch all places needed and only them. No structural change should be needed anywhere. So, even if it can introduce breakage, it shouldn't make anything more complex at all. Software should be soft. If we don't change it every once in a while, it hardens, Stefan