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From: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: rpluim@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: auth-sources and EWW
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 07:20:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p911rixzw47.fsf@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1kJU8Q-0006rW-Cb@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 19 Sep 2020 00:06:02 -0400")

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Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

That's the problem, witness this cae:

The name of the option is far removed from the place where the symptom
manifests itself, you'd never make the connection unless you were very
close to the code.
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
>   > This goes back to one of my biggest complaints re custom; once
>   > something lands in there, it's well-nigh impossible to figure out what
>   > to pull out when something like this bites,
>
> What is the difficulty in doing that?
>
> If you know the name of the option, I'd expect it to be easy to find
> the code for the custom setting, and delete that if you wish to.  Why
> isn't this easy?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-19 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-18 15:19 auth-sources and EWW T.V Raman
2020-09-18 15:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-18 15:35 ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-18 15:41   ` T.V Raman
2020-09-18 16:07     ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-18 16:22       ` T.V Raman
2020-09-19  4:06         ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-19  6:26           ` Tim Cross
2020-09-19 14:20           ` T.V Raman [this message]
2020-09-21  8:17             ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-21 14:44               ` T.V Raman
2020-09-21 16:07                 ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-22  5:32               ` Tim Cross

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