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bug#21568: [PATCH] Add prettify-symbols-alist for js-mode
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#21568: [PATCH] Add prettify-symbols-alist for js-mode |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Sep 2015 00:01:50 +0300 |
> Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, simenheg@gmail.com, 21568@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 23:18:12 +0300
>
> On 09/27/2015 10:46 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > No, please leave that text alone. It's okay the way it is.
>
> I feel that the last sentence causes unnecessary doubt on the part of
> the reader. After all, CONTRIBUTE is intended as a guideline for
> developing Emacs, and the less ambiguous it is, the better.
I see no ambiguity there. There are requirements, and there's "a good
idea" with an explanation that is left to the contributors to consider
and decide. I see nothing wrong with leaving the decision with them.
> >> What I'm referring to is requests such as this one, which I believe
> >> was/is misleading:
> >>
> >> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=21568#8
> >
> > I disagree that it was misleading.
>
> It implied that without that cookie, something in that code might not
> work well.
Then I'm sorry that my wording made such interpretation possible. It
was certainly not intended.
> > I explained my reasons right there and then.
>
> As a counterpoint, I don't believe educational purpose is a good enough
> cause to ask people to use coding cookies in UTF-8 encoded Elisp files.
Let's agree to disagree about that, okay?
> Even for external packages, over time, Emacs versions where they're
> necessary will sail off into distant past. No need to add to the baggage
> the future people will have to deal with.
I cannot see how a dozen-character string most users will never even
notice could possibly be a "baggage" of any significance.
> I see an attempt to bring in extraneous practice into writing Elisp
> files (as well as reviewing the patches), and speak against it.
The form and the intense of the objections are out of proportions,
for such an insignificant issue/disagreement.
- bug#21568: [PATCH] Add prettify-symbols-alist for js-mode, (continued)
- bug#21568: [PATCH] Add prettify-symbols-alist for js-mode, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/27
- bug#21568: [PATCH] Add prettify-symbols-alist for js-mode, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/09/27
- bug#21568: [PATCH] Add prettify-symbols-alist for js-mode, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/27
- bug#21568: [PATCH] Add prettify-symbols-alist for js-mode, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/09/27
- bug#21568: [PATCH] Add prettify-symbols-alist for js-mode, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/27
- bug#21568: [PATCH] Add prettify-symbols-alist for js-mode, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/09/27
- bug#21568: [PATCH] Add prettify-symbols-alist for js-mode, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/27
- bug#21568: [PATCH] Add prettify-symbols-alist for js-mode, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/09/27
- bug#21568: [PATCH] Add prettify-symbols-alist for js-mode, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/27
- bug#21568: [PATCH] Add prettify-symbols-alist for js-mode, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/09/27
- bug#21568: [PATCH] Add prettify-symbols-alist for js-mode,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#21568: [PATCH] Add prettify-symbols-alist for js-mode, Simen Heggestøyl, 2015/09/27
- bug#21568: [PATCH] Add prettify-symbols-alist for js-mode, Xue Fuqiao, 2015/09/27