From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>,
Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Using 'register' and ^L
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 09:11:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvha0fk4ek.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <540FE1EC.2000603@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Tue, 09 Sep 2014 22:30:20 -0700")
> There's no reason to use 'register' nowadays in the Emacs source code. We
> haven't bothered to systematically remove 'register' because it's been
> treated like tabs versus spaces, i.e., not worth changing.
Exactly.
> But if instances of 'register' are causing trouble please just remove them.
^
specific
Right. It's also acceptable to remove them on a line you're modifying
for other reasons any way (just like TAB-vs-SPC, again).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-10 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-10 3:12 Using 'register' and ^L Dmitry Antipov
2014-09-10 4:46 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-10 5:30 ` Paul Eggert
2014-09-10 13:11 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-09-10 17:37 ` Richard Stallman
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