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: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:40:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <18370.47294.641890.556694@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18371.9275.720477.806834@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <2vzltos6g1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <18371.49683.356527.589505@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18377.55334.203888.524043@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <434pbqcaz5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <200803021853.m22IrRvA000730@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803031858.m23IwToH009344@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803041839.m24Idmis008291@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803052150.m25Loonc011429@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803081918.m28JIQJC001073@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205081282 28071 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2008 16:48:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 16:48:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, nickrob@snap.net.nz, miles@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 09 17:48:29 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 1JYOhI-0003is-7w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:48:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYOgk-0006FB-7z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:47:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYOZc-0002lP-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:40:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYOZY-0002ib-7y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:40:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYOZY-0002iY-43 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:40:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JYOZY-0003jq-1t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:40:28 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JYOZX-0006wN-D4; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:40:27 -0400 In-reply-to: <200803081918.m28JIQJC001073@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (message from Dan Nicolaescu on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:18:26 -0800) 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:91893 Archived-At: I does, I've had a bad personal experience with that: after adding patches at the end of mail messages with using M-x insert-buffer RET *vc-diff* RET I got a comment: "Please fix your mailer not to insert crap at the end of messages" It sounds like you were dealing with someone rude. There's no reason to subject emacs users to such abuse for absolutely zero benefit. I've explained elsewhere the benefit.