From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Todays exercise of sanity (or does "see" really match "not"?) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 02:10:14 +0100 Message-ID: References: <002301c52e18$c9b014a0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <200503211349.j2LDnxX12741@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <003401c52e20$d6f79c70$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <87hdj4vppf.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111540350 13624 80.91.229.2 (23 Mar 2005 01:12:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 01:12:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 23 02:12:30 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDuOt-0001in-0I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 02:11:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDugG-0001fk-Ra for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:29:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDufw-0001dG-4C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:28:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDuft-0001c8-QU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:28:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDuft-0001c2-JK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:28:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DDuO6-0000WY-Hz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:10:22 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DDuNz-0007pJ-Ph; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:10:16 -0500 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:59:14 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:35020 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35020 Richard Stallman writes: > It would be wrong for preview-latex, probably one of the most > important applications extensively using the display property. > > With all due respect, I have not been shown a reason to consider > that package tremendously important. All user program are important > to some extent, but I don't see why this one should be overridingly > so. Oh, I was not as immodest to claim one of the most important applications whatsoever, but only among a particular subset. It actually happens to be rather easy to be "one of the most important applications [among those that are] _extensively_ using the display property", since there are not many of them. The only other one I can think of right now would be w3, and development of that appears pretty much stagnant. Just ask Gerd what application produced the most bug reports in the betatest of Emacs-21.1 concerning the display property... -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum