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Mon, 08 May 2017 21:37:35 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zony ([45.2.7.65]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id m4sm5532114ith.5.2017.05.08.21.37.33 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Mon, 08 May 2017 21:37:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 08 May 2017 11:59:52 -0400") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:132389 Archived-At: unarchive 354 tags 354 = wontfix quit Glenn Morris writes: > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >>> Was there any reason to implement it in the first place? >> >> Seems we are back at the discussion we had starting here: >> >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-04/msg00219.html > > In which, if I read right, literally no-one was in favour of the feature? > A feature that several people have now spent time debugging, tweaking, > and documenting, and which will have to be supported going forwards. My only defence is that everyone seemed to think it was a good idea *before* I merged it. In hindsight I should have reverted this much sooner, but anyway, it's done now [1: daaec72a82]. [1: daaec72a82]: 2017-05-08 23:28:32 -0400 Revert "Output number of characters added to file (Bug#354)" http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=daaec72a82e76f916e639acb51a8ad602433e8a9