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: Using 'register' and ^L Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 09:11:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <540FC189.3070309@yandex.ru> <540FE1EC.2000603@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410354740 6554 80.91.229.3 (10 Sep 2014 13:12:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 13:12:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dmitry Antipov , Emacs development discussions To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 10 15:12:13 2014 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 1XRhgg-0005tW-V2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:11:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56286 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRhgg-0002yC-7Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 09:11:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40841) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRhgR-0002sj-Sv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 09:11:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRhgK-0005NT-EV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 09:11:39 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:45637) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRhgK-0005ND-Ay for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 09:11:32 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id s8ADBQrP018541; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 09:11:26 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 0FAC760608; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 09:11:26 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <540FE1EC.2000603@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Tue, 09 Sep 2014 22:30:20 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5059=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9378 : core <5059> : inlines <1275> : streams <1286123> : uri <1812249> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 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:174144 Archived-At: > 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