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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Johan Andersson <johan.rejeep@gmail.com>
Cc: lunaryorn@gmail.com, tromey@redhat.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Inhibit "Wrote foo" from write-region
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:25:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y525cv90.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB6RKMsxrEQPLMeMpec4opk3bVqnB0Hbo228cpF69MRFJOLsVg@mail.gmail.com>

> From: Johan Andersson <johan.rejeep@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:34:56 +0100
> Cc: Sebastian Wiesner <lunaryorn@gmail.com>, tromey@redhat.com, 
> 	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> > In general, given behavior that is old enough, you can be sure that someone,
> somewhere relies on it.
> 
> Is it a documented API? If it is, it is probably the worst "API" in the
> history of software and should be deprecated and removed. If it's not, just
> remove it and be done with it. If you rely on that sort of output, it's
> really your own fault and people can change their code.

That'd be harsh on users.  There should be a very good reason to be
that harsh.

> I really really hate that Emacs prints messages when it really shouldn't.

It did so since time immemoriam.  And a solution to override that was
already proposed.  So I'm not sure why we are still arguing.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-24 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-21 12:32 Inhibit "Wrote foo" from write-region Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-21 12:38 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-21 15:57   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-21 16:31     ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-21 16:47       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-22 12:35         ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-22 15:11           ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-22 17:00             ` Sebastian Wiesner
     [not found]       ` <<834n4xgu3z.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-01-21 17:59         ` Drew Adams
2014-01-21 18:26           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-22  8:05           ` Juri Linkov
2014-01-21 16:42 ` Tom Tromey
2014-01-22 12:37   ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-22 15:09     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-22 17:08       ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-22 19:20         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-23  9:35           ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-23 13:50             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-23 14:24               ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-23 15:18                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-23 16:15                   ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-23 16:29                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-23 17:31                   ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-23 18:04                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-24 20:14                       ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-23 16:25               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-23 17:37                 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-23 18:07                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-24 13:34                     ` Johan Andersson
2014-01-24 13:48                       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-24 14:25                       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found] <"<m2r481o6rh.fsf"@lunaryorn-air.fritz.box>

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