Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Paul Eggert]

On 10/15/2014 12:17 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>   > It's perfectly fine for users to try "M-x grep -r" at home.  It's
>   > not going to hurt them.
>
> That's true for "hurt" == "must call 911".
It's not going to trash their files, or corrupt their displays, or steal 
their passwords, or do anything that's going to hurt them.  Let's not be 
fearmongers here.  The current behavior is useful and easy to explain 
and understand, and people use it a lot, and in that sense it is not a 
"bug".  Although the behavior could be changed to better handle the use 
cases you're thinking about, that is a different matter, one that would 
require nontrivial work to do, and one that shouldn't obstruct the 
common current usage.

>  > Conversely, it appears that you did not read the file
>  > admin/notes/unicode carefully;
>
> "It appears that you have not studied Unicode carefully", as there is
> nothing in that file that suggests anything but work is involved

Nontrivial work needs to be done, and this is a technical barrier as 
nobody (including you) has had the time to do the work.  It does still 
appear, though, that you haven't read admin/notes/unicode carefully 
enough, as a simple language-tag-per-file approach won't suffice for 
src/msdos.c, etc/HELLO, lisp/language/tibetan.el, etc., and still more 
work would need to be done for those files, the details of which have 
never (as far as I know) been discussed.  It's not clear how my studying 
Unicode more carefully would help in that effort.