From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: recording-elisp.el - try recording commands as elisp code Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:16:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87k5p05qsy.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194315595 16954 80.91.229.12 (6 Nov 2007 02:19:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 02:19:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: yezonghui@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 06 03:19:58 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IpE2n-0002sD-J5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:19:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IpE2c-0004b0-Os for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:19:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IpDzE-000170-DI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:16:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IpDzC-00016B-V7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:16:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IpDzC-00015i-6Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:16:14 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IpDzB-0007Pn-TY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:16:13 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IpDzB-0003hA-EC; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:16:13 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:43:42 -0500) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:82616 Archived-At: It's always a source of problems, but before you accumulate a few solutions for a few packages, it's often difficult to figure out what's the right way to provide a generic functionality which packages can then use (so that the details relating to each package get moved to the relevant package). I find that implementing specific solutions for a few uses is often the best way to figure out what general functionality is needed. Theoretical thinking, not guided by practical experience, often leads to solving the wrong problem.