From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Add M-x occur to the menu-bar Date: 14 Mar 2004 03:04:10 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3F69E6FF.9050702@yahoo.com> <4n8yjto16h.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nisixjibl.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> <20040127230323.GB5407@fencepost> <4n7jzc919v.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nn085i7nl.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> <4noese37h0.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nbrodxwqm.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> <4n8yjcccvj.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nwu6sp7ni.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 14 05:06:16 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B2MtD-0001wH-00 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 05:06:15 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B2MtD-0002Pm-00 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 05:06:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B2MRE-0004wd-7w for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 22:37:20 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B2L4t-0002Uq-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 21:10:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B2KKh-00078d-KD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:22:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.237] (helo=pfepc.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B2K3M-0001ju-Sz; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:04:33 -0500 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 2490E26281C; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 02:04:27 +0100 (CET) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20431 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20431 Richard Stallman writes: > I'm not opposed to adding this as a future option, but I don't want to > complicate the intentionally simple interface to next-error (set > next-error-function and next-error-last-buffer, that's it). I think a > list of buffers would complicate life for users and developers alike, > without adding much functionality. It would be especially bad for > backward compatibility, which RMS insists on. > > There's a misunderstanding here. I am not saying this change must be > entirely "backward compatibility". The intended feature, making > next-error handle Occur buffers, is an incompatible change, but that > is ok. > > Rather, the point is to get the behavior for choice of buffers > that will *seem right and convenient to the user*. > > Someone pointed out that the stack idea might not really offer much > benefit, though. IMHO, we should just try this without the stack approach. If it turns out to work sub-optimal, we can improve it later. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk