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: More metaproblem Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 17:14:00 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20141203142859.24393.98673@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <20141203192721.GE12748@thyrsus.com> <547F6774.50700@cs.ucla.edu> <838uio5vjw.fsf@gnu.org> <20141203211447.GB15111@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417644906 5761 80.91.229.3 (3 Dec 2014 22:15:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 22:15:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Eric S. Raymond" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 03 23:14:59 2014 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 1XwICH-0004LZ-EW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 23:14:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43576 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwICG-0002UI-SX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 17:14:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39184) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwIBm-0002Jg-Sg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 17:14:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwIBe-0006yR-J2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 17:14:26 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:38236) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwIBS-0006vH-Cw; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 17:14:06 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjsPAOwQflRMCqTq/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCws0EhQYDSSISgnWWQEBAQEBBQEBAQEekG8HhEgFiwGkLoF4hBkhgncBAQE X-IPAS-Result: AjsPAOwQflRMCqTq/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCws0EhQYDSSISgnWWQEBAQEBBQEBAQEekG8HhEgFiwGkLoF4hBkhgncBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,502,1413259200"; d="scan'208";a="99502233" Original-Received: from 76-10-164-234.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.164.234]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 03 Dec 2014 17:14:05 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 944F588E1; Wed, 3 Dec 2014 17:14:00 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20141203211447.GB15111@thyrsus.com> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Wed, 3 Dec 2014 16:14:47 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:178785 Archived-At: > I realize you both mean well, but have you actually thought about the > effect of adding more edge cases to commenting rules that are already > rather fussy? (And undocumented.) Agreed. I keep the asteriks and don't see the need for this edge case. Stefan