From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: 23.0.50; `mode-name' variable docs out of date WRT features Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:50:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20071230191250.1839.qmail@priss.frightenedpiglet.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199354092 889 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2008 09:54:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 09:54:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sand@priss.frightenedpiglet.com, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 03 10:55:12 2008 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 1JAMn2-0000SJ-2z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:55:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JAMmf-0008Ve-NO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:54:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JAMiE-0005Ob-EQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:50:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JAMiD-0005No-Pt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:50:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JAMiD-0005NV-JL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:50:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JAMiD-0000jb-5f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:50:05 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JAMiB-0007wa-Ua; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:50:04 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:55:45 -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:85973 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:20495 Archived-At: > Stefan, could you redo that differently, then ack? No, it'd be a step backward. If your aim was to change the meaning of the variable mode-name to allow any mode-line spec, you implemented just a part of that change. You didn't change the documentation, and you didn't fix the code that expects the value to be a string. The result is broken. It needs to be fixed somehow. We need to either fully implement this change in mode-name, or not implement it at all. There are several places in Emacs that assume it is a string. And the change would be an incompatible change. So unless there is some strong reason to make the change, better we should undo the incomplete change. Can you offer a strong reason?