From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [emacs-w3m:11603] Re: interactive-p obsolete Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 01:44:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4E13FCE4.8080309@easy-emacs.de> <871uy3lrfy.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309995923 16693 80.91.229.12 (6 Jul 2011 23:45:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 23:45:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Bastien , Tim Cross , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 07 01:45:19 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 1QebmR-0004pD-Bv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 01:45:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52463 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QebmQ-0002nn-Dm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:45:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41091) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QebmB-0002mI-Qm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:45:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QebmA-0003zl-Ug for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:45:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:56888) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QebmA-0003zh-MX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:45:02 -0400 Original-Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so157813ewy.0 for ; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:45:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=Xg/9RgsUKIQ6u3kwqU0sAu2nyzTpZ6EyymC4FvIPNAg=; b=FxxpuWM+yErXBJ81a+VqvISjJlGYliAHc0hceWPClAx30K0to5p3/m8/euDQEoueXp 34DURAGaWFvAMKdqnVN/n/nB/4Z5Tfp9dRxHS3yT4WZvhU2+GqmaXIgmoQeJITaHYGd0 giZNa5qyNKSKk23fDSihOcmHvV8hcG8ENyqWE= Original-Received: by 10.213.20.200 with SMTP id g8mr105659ebb.140.1309995900279; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:45:00 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.213.7.84 with HTTP; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 16:44:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.215.41 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:141700 Archived-At: On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 01:32, Juanma Barranquero wrote: > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 01:16, Lennart Borgman wrote: > >> ;-) -- Yes, you are right. But it could be defined in a separate >> compatibility elisp file that could be copied to Xemacs and copied >> "privately" for those using it with older emacsen. > > At which point, you've created a bigger problem that the one you > wanted to fix, because instead of a ten-line macro in some > compatibility file in the package, you're suddenly dealing with making > that macro available to people *outside* the package(s) where it is > intended to be used... > > In other words: we can add that macro, but I bet it won't save a > single line of code (nor any trouble) to any externally maintained > multi-platform package. I think you will lose a lot of money if people take the chance.