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: Changes for emacs 28 Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 23:51:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20200910231420.kvqg6ohvxetpup5c.ref@Ergus> <20200910231420.kvqg6ohvxetpup5c@Ergus> <20200912032817.quizlcbwuf64wjfp@Ergus> <1451e822-7d81-de7b-b3ae-1c5da48b2036@yandex.ru> 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="32918"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rekado@elephly.net, ghe@sdf.org, spacibba@aol.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 14 05:53:42 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 1kHfYj-0008Se-O3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2020 05:53:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48494 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kHfYi-0004lo-Qq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2020 23:53:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46748) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kHfWu-0002a3-Ez for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2020 23:51:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44467) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kHfWu-0004aR-4b; Sun, 13 Sep 2020 23:51:48 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kHfWs-0008P0-Rz; Sun, 13 Sep 2020 23:51:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1451e822-7d81-de7b-b3ae-1c5da48b2036@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sun, 13 Sep 2020 13:47:18 +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:255602 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. ]]] > I am wary of this kind of hidden state, which makes a command behave in > two distinctly different ways. It is likely to increase confusion, > rather than eliminate it. I am not convinced. I urge someone to try implementing my suggestion so people can see whether they like it. That will be more useful than speculating whether people will like it. -- 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)