From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r112183: Move forward-whitespace, forward-symbol, forward-same-syntax commands to subr.el. Use forward-symbol in supermode.el again. Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:21:53 +0300 Message-ID: <83k3op427y.fsf@gnu.org> References: <51568F1D.2060602@online.de> <83mwtl46wj.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364638896 22344 80.91.229.3 (30 Mar 2013 10:21:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 10:21:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: andreas.roehler@online.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Leo Liu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 30 11:22:03 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 1ULsvA-00077P-21 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 11:22:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42038 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULsul-0005iJ-OD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 06:21:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54602) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULsui-0005iD-RX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 06:21:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULsuh-0002dY-PH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 06:21:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:51324) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULsuh-0002dO-Gw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 06:21:31 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MKG00F00XS23U00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:21:30 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MKG00F11Y3T4D00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:21:30 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:158475 Archived-At: > From: Leo Liu > Cc: andreas.roehler@online.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 17:54:02 +0800 > > On 2013-03-30 16:40 +0800, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Why do you think subr.el is a wrong place for these? And what is the > > right place, in your opinion? > > In general a place that isn't frozen in emacs binary. Not sure why you think so. subr.el, simple.el, bindings.el, and probably other files that are preloaded are chock-full of useful subroutines that are not necessarily used in any given Emacs session. My impression was that the important question for that is "is this function a useful subroutine" rather than "will it be necessarily used".