From: Ista Zahn <istazahn@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>,
30217@debbugs.gnu.org,
Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 17:14:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+vqiLG1Y7uJ2q6PTxPiXTsx1aO-69OTtJj971uEt-kmof1GjQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29f2629e-35dd-4c6d-859e-d5851e3f9125@default>
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On Feb 2, 2018 4:39 PM, "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> > Sorry, but it's not clear to me. Is this being abandoned
> > completely (I hope so), or is it just being postponed to
> > Emacs 27?
>
> It's currently only postponed to Emacs 27, I suggest you bring it up
> in emacs-devel if you think we should get rid of it. Since we simply
> disagree about this, I don't think further dialogue here will help
> anything.
I think you should bring it up, and I think you should have
from the beginning. This is not just about fixing a bug.
You're the one who is, in effect, proposing a change to Lisp.
This is not normal Lisp behavior. This is a far cry from
quote and backquote, comma and period, all of which are quite
traditional for Lisp.
These are ordinary symbol-constituent characters, and should
not be handled in the way you've implemented. (I wanted to
say "suggested", but you didn't suggest it to emacs-devel;
you just implemented it - in a bug thread, no less.)
I'm nobody in this community, but in case it means anything I agree
completely with Drew. This isn't a bug fix, but a language change that
needs to be carefully thought out and discussed.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-22 22:17 bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91 Alan Mackenzie
2018-01-22 22:42 ` Drew Adams
2018-01-23 0:42 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-23 0:56 ` Drew Adams
2018-01-23 1:40 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-23 6:07 ` Drew Adams
2018-01-23 6:21 ` Drew Adams
2018-01-23 12:54 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-23 15:53 ` Drew Adams
2018-01-23 23:00 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-23 23:19 ` Drew Adams
2018-01-24 0:02 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-28 15:52 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-02 18:52 ` Drew Adams
2018-02-02 19:08 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-02 21:37 ` Drew Adams
2018-02-02 22:14 ` Ista Zahn [this message]
2018-02-02 22:35 ` Noam Postavsky
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