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: Proposed new core library: alert.el Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:38:04 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446845912 18604 80.91.229.3 (6 Nov 2015 21:38:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 21:38:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Vivek Dasmohapatra Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 06 22:38:23 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuoiD-0004h1-Pn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 22:38:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41232 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuoiD-0001Qi-94 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:38:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34796) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuoi8-0001OI-O5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:38:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuoi7-0000NP-R6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:38:16 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58366) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuohx-0000ED-Ed; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:38:05 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuohw-0003LV-KJ; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:38:04 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Vivek Dasmohapatra on Thu, 5 Nov 2015 16:33:43 +0000 (GMT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:193469 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] We have a rather general feature for displaying warnings: the function `display-warning'. Could it serve this purpose? Could it be extended to serve this purpose? In principle, it would be nice to have just one such mechanism rather than two. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.