Re: [External] : Re: Shrinking the C core

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>,  Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
>  "luangruo@yahoo.com" <luangruo@yahoo.com>,  "emacs-devel@gnu.org"
>  <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2023 13:55:46 +0200
> 
> I really didn't want to argue about keyword arguments either, but
> Richard brought them up himself. Like you, and probably everyone else
> who is familiar with Richards writing through the years, through his
> articles and this very mailing list, I am aware of the elephant in the
> room, but honestly, I think his friends, Eli and others, are too kind and
> would do Richard more favor if they told him when he is dead wrong and
> made him to challenge his own view on some questions from time to
> time.

This comes out quite condescending, FYI.  You probably didn't mean
that, but the result is not nice anyway.  One more reason to stop this
dispute about personal stylistic preferences, which was futile from
the get-go.