From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove obsolete fast-lock and lazy-lock libraries Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 23:26:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20200810110458.GA4294@ACM> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36977"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, jnorden@tntech.edu, stefankangas@gmail.com To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 11 05:27:13 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 1k5KwT-0009Vi-3M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2020 05:27:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58924 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k5KwR-0000Uz-VG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2020 23:27:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44556) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k5Kvx-0008U9-0t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2020 23:26:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35500) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k5Kvu-0000IJ-50; Mon, 10 Aug 2020 23:26:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1k5Kvs-0003P4-Ek; Mon, 10 Aug 2020 23:26:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200810110458.GA4294@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Mon, 10 Aug 2020 11:04:58 +0000) 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:253616 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. ]]] > > IMNSHO, that variable [font-lock-support-mode] should not be a > > defcustom any more and we shouldn't encourage users to touch it. IOW > > we should mark it obsolete. > In other words, deliberately restrict what users can do with Emacs. That puts a harsh face on a statement which has other interpretations. For instance, one can interpret it as contending that supporting setting of that variable by users would require a lot of work and the benefit would not justify all that work. I don't have an opinion about the question itself, but please don't demonize the other side of the question. -- 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)