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From: | Andreas Roehler |
Subject: | Re: general-purpose.el - a general-forms-resource-utility |
Date: | Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:13:56 +0200 |
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Eli Zaretskii schrieb:
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:11:01 +0200 From: Andreas Roehler <address@hidden> There are general usable functions scattered in the source files, which are useful in a lot of circumstances and could be callable in a given context.Why do we need a new file for these? We already have subr.el, why not add things to it?
Thanks.
See several questions around: To copy it into a new file would produce volume. Altogether as the definitions are already there. From this point of view it's better to copy them from the original location into a temporary buffer just the moment, the user wants to see it. Given this, another question results: What, if the source changed and the indicated form isn't longer in place? Maintain a fall-back file somewhere in the net? Error message? Subr.el isn't suitable in any case as `general-purpose' is conceived as a user facility. The collection should not be evaluated per default, it should not change the sources by themselves. Certainly as a result there might be cases--and probably a lot of them--where it's obvious the definition should go into subr.el - as string-strip originating from newcomment-string-strip. But that will be another process. __ Andreas Roehler
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