From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug#36474: Algorithm in electric-pair--unbalanced-strings-p unsuitable for CC Mode Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 17:11:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20190702131632.GA30597@ACM> <20190702160410.GB30597@ACM> <20190702182811.GC30597@ACM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="237902"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 02 23:11:58 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hiQ4E-000zme-81 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2019 23:11:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57634 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hiQ4C-0005Pf-7X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2019 17:11:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52230) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hiQ3o-0005Ng-Uq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2019 17:11:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hiQ3m-0006RY-SP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2019 17:11:31 -0400 Original-Received: from 195-159-176-226.customer.powertech.no ([195.159.176.226]:53984 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hiQ3m-0006FN-A5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2019 17:11:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hiQ3g-000zFA-9y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2019 23:11:24 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Followup-To: gmane.emacs.devel Cancel-Lock: sha1:o9pNHRDOaTcAhamPwXs41USogQg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:238307 Archived-At: >> And if you are, are you also absolutely sure you need to put it in the >> code and and not provide an easy way to turn it off? > It's a core feature of the mode, not an option. I don't understand this statement. How could handling of incorrect code be part of "the core feature" of the mode? I understand you consider this to be a useful feature, and even though I don't find it of value I'm sure some other users may like it, but .... "core feature"? Stefan