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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 ec02c73: Update process filter example (Bug#35044)
Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 08:43:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy33ifncb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV--7zp=OjgF5GQw5=ZO8Nc8SZvFKu-gOpkn103chV5rnOQ@mail.gmail.com> (Noam Postavsky's message of "Tue, 7 May 2019 06:44:02 -0400")

> I just don't see how we can say it's almost always much better to use
> `insert', and then use `insert-before-markers' by default.

Very easy: historical accident (and the lack of
window-point-insertion-type before Emacs-23).

> "Do as we say, not as we do".

More like: "don't do the same mistake we did".


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-07 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20190501005255.2DF9B2042B@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2019-05-01  2:54   ` [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 ec02c73: Update process filter example (Bug#35044) Stefan Monnier
2019-05-01 11:08     ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-03 22:47       ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-04  1:33         ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-04 13:22           ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-07 10:44             ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-07 12:43               ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-05-10  1:33                 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-10 13:17                   ` Stefan Monnier

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