From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: man.el Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:04:07 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1659-Sat21Feb2004120407+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <87znbdqgk3.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077358377 13140 80.91.224.253 (21 Feb 2004 10:12:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:12:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 21 11:12:50 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AuU7u-0006NW-00 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 11:12:50 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AuU7u-0000Bh-00 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 11:12:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AuU1p-0008Vo-BC for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 05:06:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1AuU11-0007yY-49 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 05:05:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1AuU0O-0007G7-Ge for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 05:05:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.23] (helo=aragorn.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AuU0N-0007DL-9z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 05:05:03 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (pns03-194-59.inter.net.il [80.230.194.59]) by aragorn.inter.net.il (MOS 3.4.4-GR) with ESMTP id CMU98343; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:04:49 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Juri Linkov X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <87znbdqgk3.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Sat, 21 Feb 2004 03:04:12 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20093 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20093 > From: Juri Linkov > Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 03:04:12 +0200 > > So instead of arguing which of the incorrect methods is more correct, > it could be left completely to user's discretion. FWIW, I don't like this kind of solutions. Emacs should not delegate to the user the need to resolve its inability to DTRT. User customization is for selecting from several similarly correct behaviors, not for fixing misfeatures. So I think we should find a way for Emacs to behave correctly in this situation.