From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: completing-read depricated initial-input Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 23:38:15 +0200 Message-ID: <87zgi3giwo.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <86r13hubaw.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <86letphfke.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <87bkuljsvz.fsf@yahoo.com> <86fsjvlrjo.fsf@gnu.org> <874k0bkco7.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87letnhhj3.fsf@gnu.org> <87zgi3itb7.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87h74bhar6.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2230"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:dpfNt3DZ33y2KRNFH8UOqW6/KfY= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 24 00:05:05 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o4Uwi-0000LR-Vy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2022 00:05:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59014 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o4Uwh-00045C-KE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:05:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55978) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o4UYb-00017u-Ku for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2022 17:40:18 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:42394) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o4UYZ-0007O3-Fz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2022 17:40:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o4UYU-0000oy-IS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2022 23:40:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:138046 Archived-At: carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: > So now emacs is getting into the habit of trashing code by > looking at written packages by figuring out what is not > usually done by the majority? It is a bad strategy, to say > the least. Even worse, it looks as if the documentation in > putting in people's head that INITIAL-INPUT should not be > used in any function where it is defined as an argument. It's called techno-totalitarianism and even as we speak computers all over the world are busy pushing it still further and further, and eventually it'll be like an art of perfection, almost. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal