From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Confused by y-or-n-p Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 10:48:18 +0000 Message-ID: References: <83a6trg6mc.fsf@gnu.org> <87im8f951f.fsf@gnus.org> <83lfdacapo.fsf@gnu.org> <07c77503-9453-9aa6-4c56-4724d099f2a7@gmx.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11059"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Gregory Heytings , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 05 11:49:53 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 1kwjuS-0002ig-BP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 11:49:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34220 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwjuR-0004Iw-EP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 05:49:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54442) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwjtC-0003Wn-UT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 05:48:34 -0500 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:20607 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwjt4-0000u7-UO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 05:48:32 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 63709 invoked by uid 3782); 5 Jan 2021 10:48:19 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p4fe15a15.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.225.90.21]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 11:48:18 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 4627 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Jan 2021 10:48:19 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <07c77503-9453-9aa6-4c56-4724d099f2a7@gmx.at> X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Received-SPF: pass client-ip=193.149.48.1; envelope-from=acm@muc.de; helo=mail.muc.de X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:262511 Archived-At: Hello, Martin. On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 18:21:19 +0100, martin rudalics wrote: > > Forgive me if I become uncustomarily blunt and personal, but it seems you > > are determined to find the worst possible interpretation of everything, > > and your replies to so many posts take on an unusually negative tone. > Forgive me Alan but > > The old "behaviour" seems to be an ad hoc unsystematic mess, not worthy > > even of being called a behaviour. > has a rather negative tone too. It does, but it's about a thing, not a person's actions. Does it disturb anybody? Does it disturb you? That's a genuine question. If so, I will be more careful to avoid repeating the disturbance in the future. > Gregory provided some interesting insights into how Emacs did > (mis-)behave in this regard and I think that they help us to soon see > a state that satisfies most of us. He did indeed. He has pointed out some bugs, too, which has been most helpful, and for which I am grateful. I do still find his manner of expression difficult to deal with. > martin -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).