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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 513c5d827d: Use `format-prompt' in
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2022 12:38:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fsh8ol0v.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r10sizhc.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sat,  03 Sep 2022 11:22:39 +0200)

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2022 11:22:39 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Thanks, but is this supposed to be an improvement?  Before the change,
> > I knew what the text meant and what was the "all" part about; after
> > the change, I don't.  It's a net loss, since the code is now less
> > readable, and in fact without either running the code or looking at
> > what format-prompt does, one cannot understand what the prompt will
> > say in Real Life.
> 
> `format-prompt' isn't about making the code more readable, but allowing
> the users to customise how prompts look.  So I don't understand the
> objection -- it's a good change.

I explained why I think it's less than good.

There are two contradictory aspirations here that clash.  You seem to
be disregarding one of them.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-03  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-03  9:15 master 513c5d827d: Use `format-prompt' in Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-03  9:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-03  9:38   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-09-03  9:45     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-03  9:56       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-03 15:50       ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-09-05  4:04         ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-05  8:26           ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-05 11:42             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-05 11:54               ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-05 12:19                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-05 12:29                   ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-05 12:33                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-05 16:02                       ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-05 16:10                         ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-06  4:16               ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-06 12:37                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-07  2:23                   ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-07 10:03                     ` Robert Pluim

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