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: lax matching is not a great default behavior Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 12:52:47 -0500 Message-ID: References: <837fl2qzs2.fsf@gnu.org> <83610ikvto.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449078788 1492 80.91.229.3 (2 Dec 2015 17:53:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 17:53:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 02 18:52:59 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 1a4BaN-00057E-JO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2015 18:52:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59626 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4BaN-0002lV-40 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2015 12:52:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45961) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4BaJ-0002lE-59 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2015 12:52:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4BaI-00061J-9V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2015 12:52:55 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41930) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4BaC-0005xM-AW; Wed, 02 Dec 2015 12:52:48 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1a4BaB-0004AR-Hd; Wed, 02 Dec 2015 12:52:47 -0500 In-reply-to: <83610ikvto.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 01 Dec 2015 17:55:15 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:195770 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. ]]] > Such a poll could only work if the behavior intended to become the > default is already available in released versions of Emacs, so users > could turn it on and try it. This is not the case with character > folding, which is only available in development snapshots, and > actually is still in flux: it changes in non-trivial ways almost every > day. > If we are afraid users will hate this default, we can turn it off in > v25.1 and consider making it the default later. That seems like the right approach. -- 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.