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Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers! |
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Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:52:33 -0500 |
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> So your rule is simply inapplicable. You seem to think it's obvious to
> distinguish between a change in behavior and a bug fix or a new feature
> or other categories, and while in many cases it is, there are also many
> cases where it's not and *that* is the reason why we sometimes introduce
> a change without a clean way to recover the old behavior: we failed to
> recognize that it wasn't just a bug fix or a plain improvement.
Yes, that does happen. We can't avoid that.
But, as the y-or-n-p problem shows, there are times when people make a
change that is obviously intended to change the UI, and isn't fixing a
bug. And yet we changed the default and did not add a variable to
control the change.
If we adopt a rule about these situations, we will do better.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
- Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!, (continued)
- Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!, martin rudalics, 2021/01/10
- Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!, Alan Mackenzie, 2021/01/10
- Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!, Stefan Monnier, 2021/01/10
- Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!, martin rudalics, 2021/01/10
- Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!, Alan Mackenzie, 2021/01/10
- Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!, martin rudalics, 2021/01/10
- Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!, Gregory Heytings, 2021/01/05
- Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!, Stefan Monnier, 2021/01/05
- Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!, Gregory Heytings, 2021/01/06
- Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!, Stefan Monnier, 2021/01/06
- Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!,
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- Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/01/07
- Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!, Alan Mackenzie, 2021/01/07
- Re: Stop frames stealing eachothers' minibuffers!, Gregory Heytings, 2021/01/07