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Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining]
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Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining] |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:14:43 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) |
Hello, Daniel.
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:55:41AM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> On August 30, 2016 11:47:49 AM PDT, Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> wrote:
> >Do you want to prevent future hackers from using b-c-f and a-c-f
> >together the way we do?
> Yes, because the approach we use today is broken and there's little
> hope in fixing it.
There is software that cannot be written in any reasonable fashion
without the technique under discussion. I suspect, even if I don't know
for sure, that CC Mode comes into that category. Any lisp program which
requires full details of a change cannot be reasonably written without the
technique.
Documenting, falsely, that it doesn't work restricts the set of what can
be written for Emacs.
> The language in the documentation doesn't change what Emacs does. I
> don't understand what's so hard to see. You want to lead developers
> into writing code against an Emacs that doesn't exist.
No, I quite clearly and accurately described the Emacs that does exist:
The technique works almost always, but you have to detect and handle
exceptions carefully, something that can be easily done.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining], (continued)
- Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining], Alan Mackenzie, 2016/08/30
- Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining], Daniel Colascione, 2016/08/30
- Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining], Daniel Colascione, 2016/08/30
- Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining], Alan Mackenzie, 2016/08/30
- Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining], Daniel Colascione, 2016/08/30
- Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining], Alan Mackenzie, 2016/08/30
- Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining], Daniel Colascione, 2016/08/30
- Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining],
Alan Mackenzie <=
- Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining], Stefan Monnier, 2016/08/30
- Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining], Alan Mackenzie, 2016/08/30
- Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining], Stefan Monnier, 2016/08/31
- Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining], Eli Zaretskii, 2016/08/30
- Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining], Alan Mackenzie, 2016/08/30
- Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining], Eli Zaretskii, 2016/08/30
- Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining], Alan Mackenzie, 2016/08/30
- Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining], Eli Zaretskii, 2016/08/30
- Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining], Alan Mackenzie, 2016/08/30
- Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining], Stefan Monnier, 2016/08/30