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: Confused by y-or-n-p Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:28:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <834kkcr1eo.fsf@gnu.org> <87k0t38g1z.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83czyvkts6.fsf@gnu.org> <87bleetirr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87y2hhri3n.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83pn2tkfg8.fsf@gnu.org> <871rf7ippu.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83a6trg6mc.fsf@gnu.org> <87im8f951f.fsf@gnus.org> <83lfdacapo.fsf@gnu.org> <87im8d6q4q.fsf@gnus.org> <8335z4dd7d.fsf@gnu.org> 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="36226"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rudalics@gmx.at, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, larsi@gnus.org, juri@linkov.net, drew.adams@oracle.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 15 06:28:55 2021 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 1l0HfL-0009Il-5v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2021 06:28:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48208 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l0HfK-0004dE-1J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:28:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37426) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l0Hec-0004D9-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:28:12 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39491) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l0Hea-000542-Dn; Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:28:08 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l0HeY-0001Wz-EM; Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:28:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <8335z4dd7d.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:16:38 +0200) 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:263063 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 assumption is that if we didn't have a complaint during all the > time the features was on the development branch and then in the > pretests, it probably means most people are okay with it. That is a valid conclusion, as regards experienced users. But surely that should not impede us from adding a user option to get the old behavior -- if due to an omission we did not make one. -- 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)