From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mh-e 6.2 imminent Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:18:02 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200210210726.g9L7QI1l014171@gbr.newt.com> <200210231948.g9NJmdBG015635@gbr.newt.com> <200210240725.g9O7PKI11467@rum.cs.yale.edu> <87bs5d40g5.fsf@pot.cnuce.cnr.it> <20021029173822.53DD4297C2@mixing.qc.dfo.ca> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036002078 4099 80.91.224.249 (30 Oct 2002 18:21:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:21:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 186xSl-000135-00 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:21:07 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 186xXy-0001Qq-00 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:26:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186xTU-0006GK-00; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:21:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186wTn-0007Ek-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:18:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186wTj-0007C6-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:18:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186wTi-0007Bd-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:18:02 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 186wTi-0002zs-00; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:18:02 -0500 Original-To: GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca In-reply-to: <20021029173822.53DD4297C2@mixing.qc.dfo.ca> (message from Peter S Galbraith on Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:38:22 -0500) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8953 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8953 And then the -flag name won't hold true and we'll have to rename it and break people's .emacs file. Now that we have aliases for variables, you can rename a variable and make the old name an alias. So the .emacs files will not will actually break. Nonetheless, the need to change the name is somewhat undesirable.