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: On controlling rectangle-preview Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:06:01 +0300 Message-ID: <83mvlbx9g6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wpkhgq5i.fsf@udel.edu> <20160720022539.GA25914@holos.localdomain> <20160720230047.GA18198@holos.localdomain> <837fcfysiv.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1469117843 27501 80.91.229.3 (21 Jul 2016 16:17:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 16:17:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mark Oteiza Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 21 18:17:16 2016 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 1bQGew-0004JK-J9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 18:17:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41927 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQGev-000491-Vv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 12:17:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38616) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQGU4-0003dK-RP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 12:06:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQGTz-0002QO-Pw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 12:05:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50702) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQGTz-0002QJ-MG; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 12:05:55 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1031 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bQGTy-0000zk-OY; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 12:05:55 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Mark Oteiza on Thu, 21 Jul 2016 10:54:22 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:205979 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 10:54:22 -0400 > From: Mark Oteiza > Cc: John Wiegley , > Stefan Monnier , > Emacs-devel > > The new defcustom in the original patch would only prevent the preview if its value was nil and the minibuffer > was empty. If we agree on nil by default instead, and if the new variable is not worth adding, then... > > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-07/msg00911.html, > > which presents a totally different one)? > > ... this is the patch that achieves that. Of course, I could have misinterpreted Stefan's comments here > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-07/msg00835.html > Sorry if that is the case. > > > And why is it needed in emacs-25? Is there some urgent or > > particularly nasty problem involved that we'd like to fix ASAP? > > It affects a feature that will be new in the release, as opposed to affecting a feature that existed in previous > releases. Thanks, I'm okay with pushing it to emacs-25.