From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: cc-mode adds newlines Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:41:24 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20041119231343.GA19603@apps.cwi.nl> <20041121020850.GA20436@apps.cwi.nl> <20041121113801.GC20436@apps.cwi.nl> <20041121130022.GH20436@apps.cwi.nl> <20041121133511.GK20436@apps.cwi.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101044502 2369 80.91.229.6 (21 Nov 2004 13:41:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:41:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jari Aalto , Alan Mackenzie , snogglethorpe@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 21 14:41:36 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CVryC-00079w-00 for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:41:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CVs7C-00077M-B2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 08:50:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CVs74-00076u-Ny for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 08:50:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CVs74-00076X-2s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 08:50:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CVs73-00076U-TB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 08:50:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CVry2-0008EV-Mr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 08:41:26 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CVrwR-0004OI-FV; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 08:39:47 -0500 Original-To: Andries Brouwer In-Reply-To: <20041121133511.GK20436@apps.cwi.nl> (Andries Brouwer's message of "Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:35:11 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:30169 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:30169 Andries Brouwer writes: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 02:14:21PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > >> For what it's worth, that is what I believe. > > OK. > >> And obviously it is what the people responsible for >> the current behavior believe. > > I do not think so. Most likely they are sorry that this happened. Variables are not introduced by accident. >> Emacs is not written by lunatics > > Please ... don't start this type of silliness. Oh, I am not starting it. It is just paraphrasing your statement that Emacs authors are sorry that when they introduce a variable that it happens to do just the job that it has been invented for in the first place. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum