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: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 01:03:10 -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> <83eeimbrl3.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="29706"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: juri@linkov.net, rudalics@gmx.at, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 17 07:03:52 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 1l11AG-0007dD-Ev for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2021 07:03:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41576 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l11AF-0005Y1-IB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2021 01:03:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56882) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l119d-00057m-P1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2021 01:03:13 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33549) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l119c-0001LJ-KJ; Sun, 17 Jan 2021 01:03:12 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l119a-0007Ph-Qm; Sun, 17 Jan 2021 01:03:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83eeimbrl3.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 15 Jan 2021 09:13:28 +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:263113 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 doesn't impede us. Where adding an option is practical, it is > certainly a good solution for such problems. The assumption I > described above is a factor in the decision whether to revert a > change, not whether to make it optional. The latter is a no-brainer > where it's feasible. That is reassuring. -- 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)