From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#18205: Obsolete patterns in auto-mode-alist Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 22:40:25 +0300 Message-ID: <83ppgcm6l2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83iom5nh6s.fsf@gnu.org> <83d2ccnwtl.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407440487 17024 80.91.229.3 (7 Aug 2014 19:41:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 19:41:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rrt@sc3d.org, 18205@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 07 21:41:18 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1XFTYr-0007kc-9H for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 21:41:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47950 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XFTYq-0002S4-Un for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:41:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53570) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XFTYi-0002Qz-Eo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:41:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XFTYc-00089j-4S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:41:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55607) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XFTYc-00089f-13 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:41:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XFTYb-0007I1-Ma for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:41:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 19:41:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 18205 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 18205-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B18205.140744042027953 (code B ref 18205); Thu, 07 Aug 2014 19:41:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 18205) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Aug 2014 19:40:20 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34317 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XFTXv-0007Gn-GH for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:40:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:60507) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XFTXs-0007GY-CI for 18205@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:40:17 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N9Y00700B58KZ00@mtaout27.012.net.il> for 18205@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 22:35:18 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N9Y005YDBQUX230@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 22:35:18 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:92284 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > 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.