From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Samuel Bronson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: May your change "Factor out lists of operators specially treated by 'make-autoload'." be added to Emacs? Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:44:24 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ty63j2n8.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1321472675 12013 80.91.229.12 (16 Nov 2011 19:44:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:44:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 16 20:44:31 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RQlPL-00031i-Ip for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:44:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53547 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RQlPL-000418-5I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:44:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47994) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RQlPH-000413-LZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:44:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RQlPG-0006FH-Hd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:44:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ww0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:37220) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RQlPG-0006FD-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:44:26 -0500 Original-Received: by wwe32 with SMTP id 32so1104118wwe.30 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:44:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=pGWYxW+QBSAnYXMn18C9ogknG0AAcmZoyipfayO+4ps=; b=RPtNh8niKIFDMbLqm+CySqX3Y7X+h9bnjSo+Sfsn6sU7jszy2ooAYACLvuxUoLXOhD 60ZKP7SbaIqCB0kNjeOFJo0gWbEyXewiDj/b6J7UW4ozzeGpXCddQxHUNv720Re6cudm f4AtA9tahr4KigzSwGruH69vWQix5tsXaXQLk= Original-Received: by 10.180.93.168 with SMTP id cv8mr37694794wib.36.1321472664967; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:44:24 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.180.87.104 with HTTP; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:44:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87ty63j2n8.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 74.125.82.49 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:146064 Archived-At: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull w= rote: > Samuel Bronson writes: > =C2=A0> Dear Stephen, > =C2=A0> > =C2=A0> I recently became aware that the following change is not present = in > =C2=A0> GNU Emacs. I would like to see this rectified. Would it be possib= le > =C2=A0> for you to assign copyright on it to the FSF, if you have not alr= eady > =C2=A0> done so? (Pretty please, with a cherry on top?) > > I assigned my XEmacs code to the FSF around 1998. =C2=A0If the assignment > is not on file, I have my copy around somewhere. > > Note that the code that this patch patches was written by Ben Wing in > 2005 (Mercurial r2548). =C2=A0From the patch and the style I would say it > was written by him from scratch. =C2=A0So you're welcome to any snippets = of > mine that work with Emacs, such as the defvars, but the patch surely > won't apply to Emacs, and you'd have to rewrite the parts that *use* > the variables I defined anyway, as Ben never assigned his code. =C2=A0He'= s > often expressed willingness to do so under the right conditions; I > don't know if this would qualify, but I suspect it would. =C2=A0However, = I > don't know where Ben is at the moment, so tracking him down might take > more effort than it's worth for the two or three uses of those > variables. While it's true that the patch won't quite apply cleanly, the `make-autoload' functions appear to actually have the same structure (including comments). A human could easily apply it it, making the necessary adjustments for differences in the actual contents of the lists. (I guess Ben already assigned copyright to the FSF?)