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: proposed patch to expand-abbrev in abbrev.c Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:07:59 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <15938.8815.95606.22282@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> <15939.60900.653741.78870@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> <15946.276.108284.215768@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045131046 7475 80.91.224.249 (13 Feb 2003 10:10:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:10:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18jGIU-0001oi-00 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:08:50 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18jGUt-0002kQ-00 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:21:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18jGJw-0003nB-0A for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:10:20 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18jGJK-0003Wq-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:09:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18jGIN-00030J-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:08:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18jGHg-0002pK-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:08:00 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18jGHf-0001o7-00; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:07:59 -0500 Original-To: quarl@quarl.org In-reply-to: <15946.276.108284.215768@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> (message from Karl Chen on Wed, 12 Feb 2003 00:08:52 -0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11618 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11618 My previous suggestion was that save-abbrevs's options not change, and abbrevs-changed would be set to 'trivially if abbrevs had changed trivially only (only the use count). I did misunderstand that. this would require a lot of options for saving abbrevs however. I think you mean to have save-abbrevs have an extra option of 'trivially but this is ambiguous as to whether it's silent or not. Yes, that's what I meant and what I thought you meant too. But both ideas make sense together. A value of `trivially' for `abbrevs-changed' could be used to implement support for this value of `save-abbrevs'. By the way, please keep in mind for the doc strings that we do not use the convention of writing a ' in front of a symbol name in English text. Our convention is to put `...' around it.