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.devel Subject: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 22:53:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <831ro2tqqx.fsf@gnu.org> <4a1fd3f4-df92-c756-9874-4d07b54148ac@yandex.ru> <3bd09dca-dcdc-7569-e5fb-f6b53397af9d@yandex.ru> <83pnbjokdt.fsf@gnu.org> <2b9f91bb-e233-e24b-27d3-384dd66c4e8d@yandex.ru> 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="16415"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, yandros@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, joaotavora@gmail.com To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 05 04:55:02 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1jVnja-0004AB-3F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 May 2020 04:55:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54384 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVnjZ-0004I6-54 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:55:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40338) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVniK-0002Li-QM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:53:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45457) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVniK-0006hv-78; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:53:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jVniG-0006IB-Np; Mon, 04 May 2020 22:53:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <2b9f91bb-e233-e24b-27d3-384dd66c4e8d@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Mon, 4 May 2020 20:23:59 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248935 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. ]]] > It adds features where there were none, sure. > But changing something that exists, especially when it had existed for a > while, is a long, arduous journey with rare chance of success, IME. That is how it should be. Stability in Emacs interfaces is very important. > It's the difference between adaptation and accretion. Call it what you wish. -- 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)