From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation of nnoo.el Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 22:25:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87615q88kh.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1436667958 9449 80.91.229.3 (12 Jul 2015 02:25:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 02:25:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eric Abrahamsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 12 04:25:49 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 1ZE6xg-0006yX-Cu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 04:25:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49572 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZE6xf-0008Gw-Dc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2015 22:25:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41845) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZE6xF-0008Ga-Lp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2015 22:25:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZE6xC-0000Zn-F7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2015 22:25:21 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:42886) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZE6xC-0000Yf-Bx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2015 22:25:18 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0A2FgA731xV/2cGNJ1cgxCEAoVVwwsEAgKBPDwRAQEBAQEBAYEKQQWDXQEBAwFWIwULCzQSFBgNJIg3CM8jAQEBBwIBH4s6hQUHhC0FtQQjgWaCLiKCeAEBAQ X-IPAS-Result: A0A2FgA731xV/2cGNJ1cgxCEAoVVwwsEAgKBPDwRAQEBAQEBAYEKQQWDXQEBAwFWIwULCzQSFBgNJIg3CM8jAQEBBwIBH4s6hQUHhC0FtQQjgWaCLiKCeAEBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,465,1427774400"; d="scan'208";a="129808658" Original-Received: from 157-52-6-103.cpe.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([157.52.6.103]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 11 Jul 2015 22:25:17 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4078861746; Sat, 11 Jul 2015 22:25:17 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87615q88kh.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Sun, 12 Jul 2015 09:32:14 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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: 2.1.14 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:187811 Archived-At: > This is a bit nuts, but: are there any technical/policy obstacles to > considering an EIEIO re-write of Gnus? Nnoo.el is re-inventing the wheel... IIUC this wheel didn't exist, or was not widely available back then. But in any case, I can't answer because I don't understand nnoo.el (which gets us back to my request for documentation). > Of course, who would actually go and do that is another question > altogether. But in principle? It all depends on how easy it is and what would be the benefits. Stefan