From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#28747: 26.0.60; Usage of "&rest body" in Edebug specs Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 23:12:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87o9phznq7.fsf@runbox.com> <87sgnto1bf.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="182208"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: gazally@runbox.com, 28747@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 18 05:13:16 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iLIhY-000lIX-9X for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Oct 2019 05:13:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34904 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iLIhX-0004nQ-6i for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Oct 2019 23:13:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60394) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iLIhP-0004n6-HF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Oct 2019 23:13:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iLIhN-0005IU-DG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Oct 2019 23:13:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:40288) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iLIhL-0005IJ-SL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Oct 2019 23:13:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iLIhK-0002Ze-0G for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Oct 2019 23:13:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 03:13:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 28747 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 28747-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B28747.15713683369837 (code B ref 28747); Fri, 18 Oct 2019 03:13:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 28747) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Oct 2019 03:12:16 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49109 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iLIga-0002Yb-GG for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 17 Oct 2019 23:12:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51202) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iLIgY-0002YP-Sh for 28747@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 17 Oct 2019 23:12:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53679) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iLIgT-00055s-Dd; Thu, 17 Oct 2019 23:12:09 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iLIgS-0003jg-Je; Thu, 17 Oct 2019 23:12:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87sgnto1bf.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed, 16 Oct 2019 04:45:40 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:169627 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. ]]] > > The symbol &rest in an Edebug spec has a different meaning than it has > > in an argument list. That seems like a confusing wrinkle. Could we possibly change Emacs to smooth it out? -- Dr Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)