From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposed new core library: alert.el Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:16:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87io5g2po3.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446776449 18823 80.91.229.3 (6 Nov 2015 02:20:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 02:20:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: raman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 06 03:20:49 2015 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 1ZuWdx-00045x-Ms for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 03:20:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36288 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuWdx-0001r4-4y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:20:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59630) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuWdr-0001pV-D1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:20:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuWdm-0005EI-FP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:20:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-yk0-x22a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c07::22a]:33496) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuWdm-0005Dp-AL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:20:34 -0500 Original-Received: by ykdv3 with SMTP id v3so76874777ykd.0 for ; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 18:20:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:date:message-id:references :user-agent:mail-followup-to:mime-version:content-type; bh=cfUTecxRSR6ud8Dodsp59TQOpq01Lidd7RYa9sw2mxk=; b=zlBHyRHVkIvcJigH1EMWY63h6pzsdi9fO5Dny3qXLgFdI3N1vnCVHpBfv1+sPREsUG yFsdksWZGfOi96YBRBeASYsQHQDWkvSkJsS+lxruvWxIIUBjsfLfbVOtThM0TtKhZuSD R4VVTSfXT2yJbYhvhfuHeNGn5V66ztOc80s6HCkBzjf896esuWua3usGdsO9wIjqoqck 4IHQIoM+gCVwyeZZg6GBsRAyRXoETKD4VGRoT0tQUxRuCrADQI+/9D72ekzPJYD58saZ Vyxhw1STg03Dv5NZwyH8zA3SK5aJ5IWMpcinOdLJ3Cm0eigxrT6Ln6xE/DM32r6spB1b uPlQ== X-Received: by 10.31.14.7 with SMTP id 7mr10348432vko.133.1446776433690; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 18:20:33 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Hermes-2.local ([216.57.92.130]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id m16sm6844865vke.20.2015.11.05.18.20.32 (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 05 Nov 2015 18:20:33 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Original-From: "John Wiegley" Original-Received: by Hermes-2.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id 4E05048EF001; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 21:20:32 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (raman@google.com's message of "Thu, 05 Nov 2015 17:47:18 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Mail-Followup-To: raman , emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4002:c07::22a 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:193366 Archived-At: >>>>> raman writes: > You could do this seamlessly by attaching an around advice to message and > having that call alert Advice is only to be used by user code, not in core. It's the "last line" of customization, but shouldn't be a programming style for developers. John