From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : A peek to the other side Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 14:38:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83czjeu4i1.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22796"; 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:dwvdpqoFxpQHjMixtw+1gUAVGHY= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 22 20:59:17 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 1nMbJd-0005mC-DD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2022 20:59:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47752 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nMbJc-00053l-3o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2022 14:59:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47616) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nMb01-0005iJ-AK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2022 14:39:01 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:37750) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nMazz-0007eo-GR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2022 14:39:00 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nMazy-000APx-3W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2022 20:38:58 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ 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:136154 Archived-At: > is way down the priority list, that's all. So we keep the > documentation of those to the absolute minimum: by using the "--" > indication, and we expect Emacs programmers to trust us on that. Actually, the explanation for "--" is often available in its full glory by email anyway ;-) > Anything else would simply be a case of bad judgment and misuse of the > time we have to contribute. And also of the time of people who read the code. Stefan