From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:32:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2bowcrltn.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y5zgcjyk.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:21:23 +0300")
on Sat Jul 30 2011, Eli Zaretskii <eliz-AT-gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
>> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:29:38 -0400
>> Cc: johnw@newartisans.com, theophilusx@gmail.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com,
>> emacs-devel@gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, stephen@xemacs.org
>>
>> I'm sure that depends on your perspective about what's convenient. The
>> advance warning feature may be convenient for you, but for me (and
>> apparently I'm not alone) it's a nuisance. My patch simply allows
>> people to turn this feature off if they have the same experience as I
>> do. Is there some reason it can't be accepted?
>
> You can always disable this feature by removing the CLASH_DETECTION
> macro definition on the appropriate header file in src/s/, can't you?
Sure, if I want to maintain my own fork, rebuild emacs at every new
release, and not benefit any of the other people who are bothered by
this feature. I was really hoping to avoid all of those outcomes.
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-30 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-27 2:42 Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation Dave Abrahams
2011-07-27 15:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-27 16:25 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-27 18:56 ` John Wiegley
2011-07-28 1:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-07-28 16:46 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-28 16:54 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-28 23:00 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-29 0:12 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-29 0:51 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-29 23:40 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-30 3:29 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-30 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-30 12:32 ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
2011-07-30 18:12 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-31 2:13 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-29 23:40 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-30 12:46 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-28 18:22 ` chad
2011-07-28 23:00 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-28 19:21 ` Paul Eggert
2011-07-29 17:31 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-29 19:59 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-30 4:35 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-30 7:36 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-29 3:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-07-28 21:20 ` Evil Boris
2011-07-30 14:20 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-30 18:12 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-31 2:22 ` Tim Cross
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