From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Lifting all buffer restrictions in indentation functions
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2017 10:24:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mv2sux48.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvpo7pq7li.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 08 Dec 2017 15:47:44 -0500)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 15:47:44 -0500
>
> So it sounds highly hypothetical, and it's not clear if would be more
> often right or more often wrong in those hypothetical cases.
It _is_ hypothetical. The question that bothers me is specifically
whether we should flatly disallow those hypothetical cases, just
because we "cannot imagine" them. My experience with Emacs
development is that everything I thought was unimaginable someone
somewhere imagined it and wanted it to be possible, as long as that
made sense in their particular application.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-09 8:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-08 16:51 Lifting all buffer restrictions in indentation functions Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-08 17:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-08 20:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-08 20:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-09 8:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-12-09 15:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-08 17:38 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-08 17:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-08 22:40 ` Stephen Leake
2017-12-08 22:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
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