Re: Considered Harmful 73d213: 'Comint, term, and compile new set Emacs'

[Phillip Lord]

On Thu, April 7, 2016 2:05 am, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 04/06/2016 10:53 AM, Phillip Lord wrote:
>
>> To repeat, my belief is that a behaviour that was installed
>> deliberately, and which has been on master/emacs-25 for a year should not
>> have been removed in pre-test. I think Stefan's patch needs restoring.
>> Are you prepared to do this?
>>
>
> I think we should be more conservative and stick to the behavior that is
> in the latest stable Emacs release. Stefan wrote in May 2015 that the plan
> was to take this more-conservative approach; see
> <http://bugs.gnu.org/20484#40>. I'm sorry that you didn't know this and
> that it messed you up, but that's part of life when lived on the bleeding
> edge.


I disagree. There was a 10 month gap between Stefans email and the
reversion. Making a significant breaking change in pre-test is, I think,
wrong.

Still, if there is nothing that can be done, I will submit a new bug
report to reopen 20202 which is now not fixed.

Phil