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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
	 larsi@gnus.org,  eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: master 513c5d827d: Use `format-prompt' in
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 10:26:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735d6fcqz.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1oV3Lq-0006TZ-Gr@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:04:46 -0400")

>>>>> On Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:04:46 -0400, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> said:

    >> > We've transformed virtually all prompts like this to use
    >> > `format-prompt', so it's just something people that read
    >> > code like this have to get used to.

    >> Wow.  The logic of that...

    Richard> There is no rational argument there, only emotion.
    Richard> To contribute to useful discussion of what to do,
    Richard> what we need are rational arguments.

Like Lars said: using `format-prompt' allows people to adjust the
appearance of prompts according to their preferences. People who write
code for emacs need to know what its various functions do, and the job
`format-prompt' does is not particularly hard to remember.

Robert
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-05  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-03  9:15 master 513c5d827d: Use `format-prompt' in Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-03  9:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-03  9:38   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-03  9:45     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-03  9:56       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-03 15:50       ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-09-05  4:04         ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-05  8:26           ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2022-09-05 11:42             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-05 11:54               ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-05 12:19                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-05 12:29                   ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-05 12:33                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-05 16:02                       ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-05 16:10                         ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-06  4:16               ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-06 12:37                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-07  2:23                   ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-07 10:03                     ` Robert Pluim

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