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: Inhibit "Wrote foo" from write-region Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:04:25 +0200 Message-ID: <83ob32efrq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k3dte17j.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <83r47yek5b.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390500260 4108 80.91.229.3 (23 Jan 2014 18:04:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tromey@redhat.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sebastian Wiesner Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 23 19:04:26 2014 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 1W6Odd-0007Qp-CN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 19:04:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42616 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6Odd-0005NZ-0C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:04:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53231) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6OdU-0005HH-6L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:04:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6OdO-0001Er-5q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:04:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:53941) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6OdN-0001Eh-U5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:04:10 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MZV009008KLB700@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:04:08 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MZV009HR8UW4F60@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:04:08 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:168970 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:31:58 +0100 > From: Sebastian Wiesner > Cc: tromey@redhat.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Imagine some situation where this output is caught and parsed, for > > example. > > > > In general, given behavior that is old enough, you can be sure that > > someone, somewhere relies on it. > > I don't think it is my task to care for anyone, anywhere. Why not? Backward incompatibility is one of the worst traits in software, IMO. > If there is a concrete use case for these messages, fine, then we can try > to find a good solution for either party involved, but we can't reasonably > discuss about "virtual" use cases. I just gave you one concrete use case, above.