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: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r101829: (regexp-opt): Add `symbols' mode. Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 02:00:08 +0200 Message-ID: References: <9r7hhuvssr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87eic1a60w.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286583048 30795 80.91.229.12 (9 Oct 2010 00:10:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 00:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 09 02:10:47 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P4N1N-0007QG-9F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 02:10:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34355 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P4N1M-0008DU-M2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:10:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46779 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P4N1F-00083K-Ma for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:10:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P4Mr5-0000QJ-L7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:00:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:45713) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P4Mr5-0000QC-9D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:00:03 -0400 Original-Received: from dyn.144-85-145-043.dsl.vtx.ch ([144.85.145.43]:10855 helo=ceviche.home) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P4Mr1-0003II-N2; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:00:01 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id DAAA366118; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 02:00:08 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87eic1a60w.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:21:19 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:131511 Archived-At: >>> (regexp-opt): Add `symbols' mode. >> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=4392#12 > Oh brother. I thought "oh there's no point in discussing this first > because it's _so obvious and trivial_..." I didn't bother reacting, indeed. > Thus I think regexp-opt should have support/advertise both > `words' and `symbols' or it should do neither, because having > only `words' lends a subtle advocacy. How'bout we set-advertised-calling-convention so as to obsolete the second argument? Stefan