RE: [External] : Re: Please, Restore Previous Behavior for jump-to-register

["T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>]

That sounds reasonable, but also feels contradictory to the sentiment
that "shrinking the core, providing a strong platform and then
enabling extensions" reduces overall  maintenance burden?



Stefan Kangas writes:
 > Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
 > 
 > >> like Raman said, bookmark.el could use some love,
 > >> and this could be the chance.
 > >
 > > Frankly, I hope not.
 > >
 > > <opinion>
 > >
 > > [ I don't encourage messing more with bookmark.el,
 > >   as Bookmark+ extends/enhances it, and experience
 > >   shows that vanilla changes to improve something
 > >   like this just wreaks havoc with libraries that
 > >   build upon it.
 > >
 > >   The less people mess with bookmark.el, the
 > >   better for Bookmark+ maintenance.
 > 
 > I don't think we can really slow down the development of Emacs.  If
 > changes are proposed, and they are deemed good, we will accept them.
 > 
 > If you want to reduce your maintenance burden, you should not to ask us
 > to slow down Emacs development.  Instead, you should start working on
 > merging bookmark+.el features into Emacs itself.

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