From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:35:58 +0300 Message-ID: <83hawdgkrl.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1bqkr.13803$mL3.9455@newsfe23.iad> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335022573 30052 80.91.229.3 (21 Apr 2012 15:36:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:36:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 21 17:36:12 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1SLcM5-00009O-8M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:36:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57692 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLcM4-0002J9-K7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:36:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52862) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLcLs-0002IL-0h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:36:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLcLp-00068b-Qy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:35:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:58465) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLcLp-00065E-JV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:35:53 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M2U008005XKDJ00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:35:52 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.172.156]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M2U008SN5ZR7QD0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:35:52 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84569 Archived-At: > From: Chiron > Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:59:34 GMT > > I am arguing for the right of the current maintainers to make or to not > make whatever changes they feel are appropriate; and I am saying that if > the maintainers don't choose to make certain changes, that does not > necessarily make them fossils, behind the times, stupid, or whatever. It > may simply be that they don't think those changes are important. A purely theoretical argument that is not relevant to the reality (in which the maintainers _do_ make changes requested by users, albeit not automatically and not without discussing them first).