From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xue Fuqiao Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: obsoleting yow.el? Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:19:33 +0800 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <20130217231933.9439b1b05fe49e02bb10af52@gmail.com> References: <20130217210316.191b67673bddea876b134b40@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1361114391 11344 80.91.229.3 (17 Feb 2013 15:19:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:19:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Xue Fuqiao Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 17 16:20:13 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U762G-0000Pj-Ej for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:20:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33001 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U761w-0004I6-FW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:19:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37093) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U761t-0004Ht-8g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:19:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U761s-0004Y1-2X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:19:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pb0-f54.google.com ([209.85.160.54]:65460) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U761r-0004Xu-TJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:19:48 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-pb0-f54.google.com with SMTP id rr4so1281594pbb.41 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 07:19:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:organization:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=o0Hn4qNiv+m36Vf0Y0GA48Vwflpp9v9OLRtYnYZbia0=; b=Sv8b3+kHsKHNOXIljTrFB1NSbQ8El/4VrMi6kehpMch2zD2Vhz6KXkWCXmN7SFe0zl 0m2MYh7rFlOGIuiz8Rh1oS7gJFsEt+8AQiRcmPtVNkZ08Fb9Xti7ptaucdj8NVLZlvWU 5kmTpDoOSM/THwngR+kRL9VEbhNFLxp/juyrmhVtOCqUpGURQ1BpclPJ+c/ZguYuYcMQ F2pM1trBHgGCo6K0rvl0Q5cc6PvcohzOBzIMnzx6N7oYvMjWHWu54wklBNu5lmUjAeVf 8pSC0zpzMeVqF9AL2IwDeuN0SJSjzqEiWiB9CBQkOCrcOdPXgXnKVHr/RDUYFX9Aw4Yu E/uw== X-Received: by 10.68.116.169 with SMTP id jx9mr22325830pbb.94.1361114386799; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 07:19:46 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Emacs ([124.117.94.252]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id km10sm11370564pbc.9.2013.02.17.07.19.42 (version=TLSv1.1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 17 Feb 2013 07:19:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20130217210316.191b67673bddea876b134b40@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.24.13; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.160.54 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:157098 Archived-At: On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:03:16 +0800 Xue Fuqiao wrote: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 10:39:44 -0800 > "Drew Adams" wrote: > > FWIW, I disagree with this change. Why was it made? > > Was it proposed and discussed somewhere? If not, why not? > Personally, I use yow.el to return > or display a random Emacs tip in my echo area when Emacs enters idle. > I think it's a very useful feature. Although it seems that cookie1.el is more universal than yow.el, obsoleting a library should be discussed in this list first, I think. -- Best regards, Xue Fuqiao. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XueFuqiao