From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 23.0.50; Middle w in of permissions in dired-mode is red and bold: dired-warning Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:16:31 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87hckt9z1u.fsf_-_@jurta.org> <878x0n1g86.fsf@jurta.org> <87prtyx63t.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205439455 18294 80.91.229.12 (13 Mar 2008 20:17:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:17:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 13 21:18:03 2008 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 4.50) id 1JZtsF-00022p-HY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:17:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZtrg-00031J-B7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:17:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZtrb-0002xt-Bm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:17:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZtrZ-0002vP-Ng for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:17:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZtrZ-0002vC-G4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:17:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il ([84.95.2.16]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZtrZ-00046O-2d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:17:17 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([80.230.199.143]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0JXO001BMRLY5I30@i-mtaout6.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:29:59 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87prtyx63t.fsf@jurta.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) 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:92429 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:37:10 +0200 > > >> I propose a patch below for the 22 branch that renames the face > >> `dired-warn-writable' to more appropriate name `dired-perm-write' > >> that doesn't associate it with a warning, and changes its parent face > >> from `font-lock-warning-face' to `font-lock-comment-delimiter-face' > >> on non-Windows platforms. > > > > I object. I think now is not the time for making behavioral changes > > in the release branch. We are too close to the release. > > This is not a behavioral change. Changes in faces are changes in behavior. > This is a fix for the grave usability bug > you introduced to GNU/Linux users. It seems you realize the severity of > this problem since you wrote several times proposing to fix it: That was in October, 6 months ago. _Then_ I didn't mind, as I don't mind now that you make this change on the trunk. > I think it is not yet too late to fix this bug I think it is too late. > because there is absolutely no risk of breaking something else with > this simple fix. There's no such thing as ``absolutely no risk'' in software changes.