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.
prev 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]
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