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: Leaving out non-applicable commands on Mx Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 11:07:48 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87mvszdp6b.fsf@gnus.org> <8737u9kv6f.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87fuy7hdc6.fsf_-_@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452442095 28999 80.91.229.3 (10 Jan 2016 16:08:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 16:08:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 10 17:08:06 2016 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 1aIIXF-0001b7-Vt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 17:08:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47529 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIIXF-0000gu-5y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 11:08:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34130) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIIX3-0000gn-09 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 11:07:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIIWy-0001yP-V7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 11:07:52 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:39488) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIIWy-0001yK-Rd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 11:07:48 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0AxFgA731xV/xQDr7hcgxCEAoVVu0CHSwQCAoE8OhMBAQEBAQEBgQpBBYNdAQEDAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiDcIzyMBAQgBAQEBHos6hQUHhC0FjDCnD4FFI4QWIIJ4AQEB X-IPAS-Result: A0AxFgA731xV/xQDr7hcgxCEAoVVu0CHSwQCAoE8OhMBAQEBAQEBgQpBBYNdAQEDAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiDcIzyMBAQgBAQEBHos6hQUHhC0FjDCnD4FFI4QWIIJ4AQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,465,1427774400"; d="scan'208";a="188585558" Original-Received: from 184-175-3-20.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO fmsmemgm.homelinux.net) ([184.175.3.20]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 10 Jan 2016 11:07:48 -0500 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 20630AE023; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 11:07:48 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 10 Jan 2016 09:53:40 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (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:197974 Archived-At: > Sure. But I think this sort of "janitorial" fix-up is something that > appeals to (some) people: They can do something that can be > semi-automated, and have real noticeable progressive impact on Emacs > usability. But if the same rule applies to all N commands, repeating it for every one of those commands introduces the same old maintainability problem as copy&paste. And having to annotate every Emacs package is "janitorial enough", methinks. There's no need to make it even more tedious. Stefan