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: more url-utils? Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 16:53:37 -0300 Message-ID: References: <8739kgqbui.fsf@gnu.org> <871uzy7b9o.fsf@lifelogs.com> <877h9q5ub7.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1305575628 21800 80.91.229.12 (16 May 2011 19:53:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 19:53:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 16 21:53:44 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QM3rM-0004ar-OL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 21:53:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35735 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QM3rM-00042q-CV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 15:53:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56723) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QM3rK-00042Y-38 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 15:53:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QM3rJ-0003bd-FF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 15:53:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:39082) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QM3rJ-0003bZ-B2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 15:53:41 -0400 Original-Received: from 213-159-126-200.fibertel.com.ar ([200.126.159.213]:54334 helo=ceviche.home) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QM3rI-0005t3-Kk; Mon, 16 May 2011 15:53:40 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 72FCB66140; Mon, 16 May 2011 16:53:37 -0300 (ART) In-Reply-To: <877h9q5ub7.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Mon, 16 May 2011 14:17:32 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:139441 Archived-At: >>> After looking at many examples in Emacs, I can't find or think of any >>> need for the headers *as text* in the code I've seen. I would: SM> That sounds right. > ...so can I go ahead with my proposal or would you rather be > conservative and keep the old behavior, making API users turn off > headers explicitly? There are 3 parts. - removal of header text. - backward compatibility. - providing header info in a non-textual format. All three are important. Stefan