From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#40671: [DOC] modify literal objects Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:47:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: <530d3597-aaaa-f019-bafa-8229d13e7248@yandex.ru> <60b88f52-c50d-c57a-9ce5-495e6157d36e@cs.ucla.edu> <0721d8c1-4fe3-335c-7dbc-171487cb648a@yandex.ru> <6d1015da-0dc1-376c-f84b-5e3ee3149213@cs.ucla.edu> <286139d2-bbe1-2d5a-bec1-f781666376f1@yandex.ru> <10b89e6f-6fa6-f855-65b6-3361a74472d3@cs.ucla.edu> <8542efe2-c4a6-1da5-2513-7ffcaa6c4ec9@yandex.ru> <293d0eab-4617-08fe-aafa-d6841a750af0@cs.ucla.edu> <4085994e-f42d-b90f-9c86-ad42689bbff2@yandex.ru> <9cfc3b63-7df6-145a-8a78-e3320b6d3861@cs.ucla.edu> <72399223-0ab5-dbe4-5027-d929450a4df0@yandex.ru> <1a2d0454-baa4-9831-0e2c-4411eda1c2fe@yandex.ru> <278a1350-8b9e-4f3b-854a-723d578129f3@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="126491"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ke.vigouroux@laposte.net, 40671@debbugs.gnu.org, michael_heerdegen@web.de, mattiase@acm.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 01 04:50:32 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jULl1-000Wo6-EW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 01 May 2020 04:50:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57002 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jULkz-0005Bs-VC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:50:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36772) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jULkh-00055Z-Ha for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:50:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jULic-0003rX-TV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:50:11 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:36494) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jULic-0003ox-Ed for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:48:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jULic-0005Dw-Cq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:48:02 -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, 01 May 2020 02:48:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 40671 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 40671-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B40671.158830127820070 (code B ref 40671); Fri, 01 May 2020 02:48:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 40671) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 May 2020 02:47:58 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48040 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jULiJ-0005DO-K1 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:47:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51226) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jULiI-0005DB-AQ for 40671@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:47:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34971) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jULiA-0008JX-B4; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:47:34 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jULi8-0007N5-QW; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:47:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Paul Eggert on Wed, 29 Apr 2020 09:18:20 -0700) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:179409 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. ]]] To a purist, the vagueness about what happens to Emacs if you modify code at the wrong time may seem intolerable. If there were an easy and painless way to implement well-defined behavior, it might be worth doing so. But there isn't. This isn't a big difficulty in practice. It isn't worth sacrificing anything that matters. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)