From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: rrt@sc3d.org, 18205@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18205: Obsolete patterns in auto-mode-alist
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 22:40:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ppgcm6l2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvoavw6rr8.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: rrt@sc3d.org, rgm@gnu.org, 18205@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:12:46 -0400
>
> > I think we already invested too much energy in discussing a non-issue.
>
> You do have a point about this discussion being silly, but I think the
> core is that we don't want to advertize proprietary products, so in
> order to do that while still being able to refer to such products, we
> like to garble the product name in a way that expresses our dislike
> for it (so it's clear we don't advocate its use).
>
> "MS-DOG" and "Losedows" were examples of that. I'm not very fond of
> such tricks, but if we get rid of MS-DOG I think it's better to replace
> it with FreeDOS than with MS-DOS.
I say let the sleeping dog lie. The MS-DOS port of Emacs is in
maintenance mode, and even I build it and work on it only during
pretests. It makes very little sense to "fix" anything related to it
that isn't 100% broken. It certainly makes no sense to start yet
another argument over it with RMS.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-07 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-05 23:58 bug#18205: Obsolete patterns in auto-mode-alist Reuben Thomas
2014-08-06 17:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-06 17:47 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-06 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 0:14 ` Glenn Morris
2014-08-07 2:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 9:39 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-07 10:07 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-07 10:18 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-07 18:24 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-07 12:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-07 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 19:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-07 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-08-07 18:24 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-07 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-08 5:35 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-08 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-08 19:11 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-08 20:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-08 20:54 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-08 23:19 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-09 6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-09 7:41 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-09 7:44 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-09 8:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-09 9:11 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-09 11:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-09 11:57 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-09 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 4:25 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-06 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-06 22:05 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-07 2:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 12:02 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-07 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 11:54 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-06 23:57 ` Glenn Morris
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