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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, npostavs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: git+master: c6e6503900534d939dd94b812563c27f22c49b7d crash when using gnus
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 20:40:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r2mxsyft.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cc5b600d-785a-60e5-9209-9f7b9ac391a1@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Sun, 29 Apr 2018 10:18:59 -0700)

> Cc: npostavs@gmail.com, oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 10:18:59 -0700
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Please use one long line, to avoid problems when people naïvely
> > copy/paste the command into the shell prompt.
> 
> Users can copy-paste the first example as-is already, since the earlier line 
> ends in backslash.

Long lines without any backslashes are safer, so I'd prefer that.  But
I won't have another bikeshedding argument over that, so if you don't
feel like changing it, so be it.

> If we're talking about truly naive users, then these commands are too long 
> anyway.

I don't see any real problem with that, all supported platforms can
handle much longer commands.

> I'll hold off backporting until we get the important matter of backslashes 
> resolved. :-)

It's resolved already, if it's up to me.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-29 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-28  9:06 git+master: c6e6503900534d939dd94b812563c27f22c49b7d crash when using gnus Uwe Brauer
2018-04-28  9:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-28 10:11   ` Uwe Brauer
2018-04-28 10:46     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-28 11:56       ` Uwe Brauer
2018-04-28 12:09         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-29  8:46           ` Uwe Brauer
2018-04-29  9:53             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-29 14:54               ` Uwe Brauer
2018-04-29 15:09                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-29 15:26                   ` Noam Postavsky
2018-04-29 16:30                     ` Paul Eggert
2018-04-29 17:08                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-29 17:18                         ` Paul Eggert
2018-04-29 17:40                           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-04-29 16:31                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-29 15:01           ` Uwe Brauer
2018-04-29 15:33             ` Noam Postavsky
2018-04-29 16:33               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-29 16:39                 ` Uwe Brauer
2018-04-29 16:39               ` Uwe Brauer
2018-04-29 17:09                 ` Eli Zaretskii

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