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: EWW bugs should be fixed on emacs-25 branch Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 22:48:09 +0200 Message-ID: <83poxujlva.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8337urm0cv.fsf@gnu.org> <83ziwzkl50.fsf@gnu.org> <87lh8jvsqh.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83si2qliho.fsf@gnu.org> <83d1tulaa1.fsf@gnu.org> <838u4il3jf.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4cijo24.fsf@gnu.org> <83twn6jm7e.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451076467 28512 80.91.229.3 (25 Dec 2015 20:47:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 20:47:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 25 21:47:47 2015 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 1aCZH5-0004P3-W6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 21:47:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36419 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCZH5-0001cd-Kq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 15:47:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46378) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCZGt-0001cH-TO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 15:47:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCZGo-0000OP-SS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 15:47:31 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59793) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCZGo-0000OI-Ok; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 15:47:26 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4093 helo=HOME-C4E4A596F7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aCZGo-0007gf-2v; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 15:47:26 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Fri, 25 Dec 2015 12:44:16 -0800) 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: 2.1.14 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:196867 Archived-At: > From: John Wiegley > Cc: dak@gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 12:44:16 -0800 > > > When you run GDB via the Emacs front-end, do you understand what happens > > behind the scenes to make all these nice gdb-ui windows possible? I bet you > > don't, because _a_lot_ is going on that you don't see, and will never > > understand unless you are an expert in GDB/MI interface Emacs uses and in > > GDB itself. > > Maybe a bad example, because using GDB directly is exactly what I do most of > the time, so that I do know it's direct connection with the Emacs UI . :) I very much doubt that you interact with GDB in GDB/MI. Most probably, you use CLI, which is a different language and a different interpreter in GDB. > > You are encouraged to understand what's going on, but please do make a point > > of using gitmerge.el when merging between Emacs development branches. We > > don't want to risk people making mistakes if they can be avoided. > > OK, but once I understand what exactly is being done, there may in fact be > better ways to do it. If there are better ways, we should improve gitmerge.el to use them.