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: project.el semantics Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:06:05 -0500 Message-ID: References: <86pp1j4ejm.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <86twqrww0u.fsf_-_@stephe-leake.org> <563EA9B9.5080404@yandex.ru> <86vb9dufs0.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <563F4915.1080008@yandex.ru> <867flrbksb.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <56409F2D.9060300@yandex.ru> <86mvun9gz7.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <56415902.90103@yandex.ru> <86h9ktah9x.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <56429025.3070008@yandex.ru> <86r3jw4yrf.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <564340DC.5020008@yandex.ru> <86wptob2v6.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <5643CEAA.6000103@yandex.ru> <86si4bemyw.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <564478CA.20108@yandex.ru> <86y4e3c90y.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <56450CDB.9050604@yandex.ru> <564D3223.1050705@yandex.ru> <86h9kf655z.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448244389 20952 80.91.229.3 (23 Nov 2015 02:06:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 02:06:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 23 03:06:28 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 1a0gWQ-0007ZC-Cp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 03:06:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58217 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0gWQ-0006W6-MJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:06:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42272) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0gWN-0006W0-7U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:06:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0gWM-0002vf-AV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:06:23 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57468) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0gW6-0002qr-Dp; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:06:06 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1a0gW5-0004HJ-IG; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:06:05 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Sat, 21 Nov 2015 21:18:08 -0800) 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:195089 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. ]]] > I think Dmitry and I talked about a more general way of yielding metadata > associated with project-related "entities" (mainly directories and files in > this version), and that this metadata could indicate recursion, or even how to > perform the recursion. For example, it could be recursion with a file name, or > i-node testing, predicate. There is something to watch out for, here: extra conceptual levels can make the system and/or its manual harder to understand. This can be a net loss, if the extra levels don't do a lot of good and if you can't make them invisible to beginning users. I don't know the details, so I won't venture to say that that WILL happen in this case, but it is something to think about. -- 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.