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Re: Confused by y-or-n-p
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Confused by y-or-n-p |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Jan 2021 19:44:30 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> I agree with you that this is already happening in the vast majority of
> cases, so why would it be problematic to make this a rule, that in principle
> any change to Emacs' behavior should provide a way to re-enable the old
> behavior? IIUC that's all Richard wants. Of course that rule would not
> apply to bugfixes, and exceptions would be possible with the explicit
> approval of a maintainer.
The problem is that I disagree with your "Of course": the whole
difficulty is to decide which change falls in this category.
The problem is not that we don't follow the rule or that we don't have
such a rule. It's that there's no hard-and-fast way to decide where
that rule should apply: it's a judgment call and often this call is
non-trivial (what one person calls "feature" qualifies as "bug fix" for
another, what should be a cosmetic change may end up unexpectedly
changing behavior), which is why sometimes it takes feedback from users
to realize we got it wrong.
Stefan
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, (continued)
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/03
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Juri Linkov, 2021/01/04
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/06
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Juri Linkov, 2021/01/14
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/15
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/03
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/01/03
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/05
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/01/05
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Gregory Heytings, 2021/01/05
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Gregory Heytings, 2021/01/06
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Stefan Kangas, 2021/01/06
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/01/06
- RE: Confused by y-or-n-p, Drew Adams, 2021/01/06
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Gregory Heytings, 2021/01/06
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Stefan Kangas, 2021/01/07
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Gregory Heytings, 2021/01/07
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Stefan Kangas, 2021/01/07
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/09
- Re: Confused by y-or-n-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/01/09