From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-25 10597c9: Don't use 'find-program' Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:59:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20160411164301.22548.38008@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <83potpbwbb.fsf@gnu.org> <83h9f1bcvd.fsf@gnu.org> <83poto9lu0.fsf@gnu.org> <26f2840a-f6fb-770b-d7ae-5757123b7bd9@yandex.ru> <83fuug6pi2.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1461182401 17389 80.91.229.3 (20 Apr 2016 20:00:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 20:00:01 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 20 21:59:53 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1asyHw-0003Wf-QW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 21:59:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55512 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1asyHv-0005NT-T7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:59:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38912) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1asyHs-0005L3-Mj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:59:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1asyHn-0000Eh-OA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:59:48 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:48199) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1asyHn-0000Ea-Gr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:59:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1asyHl-0003Ov-BH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 21:59:41 +0200 Original-Received: from 45.72.141.36 ([45.72.141.36]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 21:59:41 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 45.72.141.36 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 21:59:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 45.72.141.36 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Dx7qpHDcRvbNgPQ3QccPvlFitro= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:203134 Archived-At: > I thought about something like that, but decided that I'm not sure > this is better than having just several independent values. Then each > option keeps its default value irrespective of the others, and the > user doesn't have to review all of them whenever she changes the value > of find-program. > Does this make sense? >From the POSIX point of view where you'd always want to use the same value everywhere, having to look for all those vars would rather be a pity. If she wants to change it only for grep, then she should just only set grep-find-program and leave find-program unmodified. Stefan