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: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: next steps. Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:07:44 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20181210180033.GC4188@ACM> <831s6p2qq1.fsf@gnu.org> <20181210182830.GD4188@ACM> <83zhtd1b0j.fsf@gnu.org> <20181210193557.GE4188@ACM> <83y38x1706.fsf@gnu.org> <20181210210310.GF4188@ACM> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1544555176 21469 195.159.176.226 (11 Dec 2018 19:06:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 19:06:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 11 20:06:12 2018 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 1gWnMB-0005Tq-Vx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2018 20:06:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41052 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWnOI-0005pn-Nf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:08:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37337) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWnNz-0005hb-H3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:08:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWnNu-0007YW-0y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:08:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=44343 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWnNs-0007JL-Rj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:07:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gWnLg-0004nr-Qh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2018 20:05:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y4FOay2rpW3vmbaEV3nSlMaHn/A= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:231756 Archived-At: > The traditional alist of symbols and positions is one way, and it no > longer works well (if it ever did). It works as well as ever, AFAICT. It's still a significant improvement over the previous arrangement. But as things get better, we get used to the improvement and start being annoyed by other details. IOW we get greedy ;-) Stefan