From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding email address support to thingatpt.el. Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:49:52 -0800 Message-ID: <877iu34973.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> References: Reply-To: Karl Fogel NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172609395 30196 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2007 20:49:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:49:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 27 21:49:45 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HM9Ga-0003CS-Ea for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:49:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HM9Ga-0008CK-2I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:49:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HM9GP-0008Bc-1x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:49:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HM9GN-0008B9-GU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:49:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HM9GN-0008B4-5m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:49:31 -0500 Original-Received: from sanpietro.red-bean.com ([66.146.193.61]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HM9GM-0003q7-Nf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:49:30 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43509 helo=floss.red-bean.com ident=kfogel) by sanpietro.red-bean.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HM9GL-0008SK-Pu; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:49:29 -0600 In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Tue\, 27 Feb 2007 06\:49\:21 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:66949 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > I haven't followed all of this, and I have no special knowledge of this. It > sounds as if: > > - The spec allows stuff that most people don't use, and that many people and > programs try to interpret as delimiters. > > - If the code fits the spec completely, then many users would be > inconvenienced. > > - If the code doesn't fit the spec completely, then some people will > complain and file bugs. > > Why not have the code do both, with a user option to choose the behavior you > want? Then pick the default value of the option to inconvenience the fewest > users. Sounds like the best plan to me, given that we must compromise between opposing needs here.