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: A new filter-based customization interface Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:43:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: 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="37082"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Moakt Temporary Email Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 31 05:44:32 2024 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 1tSU7L-0009Pb-0g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 31 Dec 2024 05:44:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tSU6U-0005Ji-2f; Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:43:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tSU6T-0005JV-1M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:43:37 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tSU6S-0007ye-HZ; Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:43:36 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=eV+tWIib0wT6CTGCSknnTSipa1Y/BKBkuOfrPSNBmf8=; b=FGXtsEn1Q6AY c3o8d0BvcUFd14H5dKdi76YOlr7qG8WHjiYwSJjctbvHR1H36iQyBd7c5DPf0EEqbJCmrqyD8/KNs HyprLOEd/tY3C979OPbCpw+7QBK9fz4XKcNb4BHNCb0T40ZQriMv1+myAAhJ+KM3dxTpBbO+KyeHG DizNbVLrUkx65p0tETZd/y2UtylFNw9QruRuEQwowpixh/ClcmtMcjoOmpW0OLf78ApazPWRRdL04 APWy5FkaPCo01E7itjqU42DZrF5khc228941m4tZOtj1hFpTsUYni269cFSm4hpR56ku85/RuDDV5 yO/yrQXHuZ+Ousm7BZXdGQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tSU6R-0003v2-Uf; Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:43:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Moakt Temporary Email on Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:02:42 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:327477 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. ]]] You made a real effort to explain your idea, but I don't understand the basic concepts that it takes for granted. You've said some things about details of how categories and filters work, but I have no idea what they mean. Although I understand some of what you said, I still don't understand the idea of what this feature would do. For instance, > Each name is a filter that user can select to filter on the > corresponding user options. I tried to classify them using the most > beginner-friendly terms, just to show the main idea I want yo > communicate. makes abstract sense, but I still don't understand what these filters would be good for in practice. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)