From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: nickrob@snap.net.nz (Nick Roberts) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: next bugfix release? Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:16:18 +1200 Message-ID: <19084.34754.29507.98620@totara.tehura.co.nz> References: <87praszybe.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <838whgik6y.fsf@gnu.org> <87prardif2.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <200908191946.n7JJkpAm001304@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87vdkjsecq.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <20090819225645.GA2813@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250736753 12937 80.91.229.12 (20 Aug 2009 02:52:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:52:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Dan Nicolaescu , Stefan Monnier , Eli Zaretskii To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 20 04:52:25 2009 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 1MdxlG-00038X-4b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:52:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38855 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MdxlF-00025r-M9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:52:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MdxlA-0001wu-El for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:52:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mdxl5-0001ed-JW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:52:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51267 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mdxl5-0001eO-3Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:52:11 -0400 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.25]:56314) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mdxl2-0008D7-6M; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:52:08 -0400 Original-Received: from totara (98.63.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.63.98]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DB763DA431; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:16:21 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by totara (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 192DDC164; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:16:18 +1200 (NZST) In-Reply-To: <20090819225645.GA2813@muc.de> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.2.1 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:114423 Archived-At: > Yes. It's one of these @dfn{wallpaper paste} bugs, where when you press > an area of wallpaper firmly to the wall, the paste under it pops up > another bit of wallpaper somewhere else. It's going to be a horrible bug > to fix. Indeed, it may not be fixable, in the sense of doing the Right > Thing under every reasonable circumstance. Such 'bubbles', usually called regressions, might be less likely to appear if, as Cyd suggested, there was a CC mode equivalent of compilation.txt. I can't find this post now, so apologies if it reached a logical conclusion. It might also be harder to implement than compilation.txt, as expressions are probably not as self contained, but some kind of testuite seems essential to prevent these issues from recurring. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob