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From: Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: general-purpose.el - a general-forms-resource-utility
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:13:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44ADFBA4.2020301@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uu05uqzeq.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii schrieb:
>> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:11:01 +0200
>> From: Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
>>
>> There are general usable functions scattered in the
>> source files, which are useful in a lot of
>> circumstances and could be callable in a given context.
>>     
>
> Why do we need a new file for these?  We already have subr.el, why not
> add things to it?
>
>   

Thanks. 

See several questions around: To copy it into a new file would
produce volume. Altogether as the definitions
are already there. From this point of view it's better
to copy them from the original location into a
temporary buffer just the moment, the user wants to see
it.

Given this, another question results: What, if the
source changed and the indicated form isn't longer in
place? Maintain a fall-back file somewhere in the net?
Error message?

Subr.el isn't suitable in any case as `general-purpose'
is conceived as a user facility. The collection should not
be evaluated per default, it should
not change the sources by themselves.

Certainly as a result there might be cases--and
probably a lot of them--where it's obvious the
definition should go into subr.el - as string-strip
originating from newcomment-string-strip. But that will
be another process.

 
__
Andreas Roehler

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-07  6:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-06 10:11 general-purpose.el - a general-forms-resource-utility Andreas Roehler
2006-07-06 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-06 20:34   ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-07  6:13   ` Andreas Roehler [this message]
2006-07-07  4:14 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-07  6:32   ` Andreas Roehler
2006-07-07  7:55     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2006-07-07  8:50       ` Andreas Roehler
2006-07-07 16:04         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2006-07-08  1:12     ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-07  4:15 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-07  7:08   ` Andreas Roehler

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