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bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:32:32 +0300 |
> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 14:47:44 +0200
> Cc: juri@linkov.net, contovob@tcd.ie, 40725@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> 24 apr. 2020 kl. 14.13 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
>
> > I didn't say "a good reason", I said "if we can solve the issue in
> > some other way".
>
> Why does renaming files, a quite uncomplicated operation, have to be the last
> resort?
I thought I explained why.
> > What problems are those? You mentioned grepping the files, which can
> > be easily handled by excluding the tutorials directory from the
> > search. Are there any other problems we should consider?
>
> I didn't mention grepping (scanning files can be done in multiple ways), but
> why would I or anyone else need to perform such contortions every time to
> compensate for a problem that is so easily solved once and for all by simply
> giving the files better names?
Because renaming comes with a price I'd rather not pay.
> > "Gracefully" is in the eyes of the beholder. It's true the support
> > for renames improved in the recent years, but there are still commands
> > that either fails or need special invocation methods to work across
> > renames. So it's still a source of inconvenience and occasional
> > failure or mistaken conclusions, and I'd like to avoid that if
> > possible.
>
> You are making a mountain out of a molehill.
It isn't a molehill for me. I need to search VCS history quite a lot.
> It's not going to be a problem; this is not CVS. Let's not invent
> difficulties.
I'm not inventing anything, the problems are real.
- bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings, (continued)
bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/04/24
- bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/04/24
- bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/04/24
- bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/04/24
- bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/04/24
- bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/04/24
- bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/04/24
- bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/04/24
- bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings, Richard Stallman, 2020/04/24
- bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/04/25
- bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings, Richard Stallman, 2020/04/26
- bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/04/26
- bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings, Andreas Schwab, 2020/04/27
- bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings, Richard Stallman, 2020/04/27
- bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings, Andreas Schwab, 2020/04/28
- bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings, Richard Stallman, 2020/04/28
- bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/04/29