From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>
Cc: 4743@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4743: fundamental mode not sufficiently fundamental yet
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:16:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtyxu43ex.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ADCAF7A.6000600@t-online.de> (Harald Dunkel's message of "Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:27:06 +0200")
>> Looks like maybe you don't want Emacs.
> Thats surely not the case. I am using Emacs since the early 90s.
I'm glad to hear it.
>> It turns out that Emacs's fundamental mode used to behave in this way at
>> some point in the past. But most like those "micro emacsen" do it this
>> way simply because they want to keep things simple.
> And you disagree with Kiss?
KISS results in different final products depending on the context.
E.g. in the case of Emacs, changing indent-line-function's default from
`indent-to-left-margin' to `indent-relative' made the code simpler
(after all, the complexity associated with indent-relative can't be
avoided, so the driving decision was "which choice is the most common"
so as to reduce the amount of work to be done in each major mode).
> Setting the (undocumented?) indent-fill-function did not work.
It's because it was a typo. My previous email had the right name:
indent-line-function.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-20 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-17 8:52 bug#4743: fundamental mode not sufficiently fundamental yet Harald Dunkel
2009-10-18 1:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-18 11:04 ` Harald Dunkel
2009-10-19 2:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-19 18:27 ` Harald Dunkel
2009-10-20 13:16 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-10-20 18:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-09 18:52 ` Glenn Morris
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