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bug#54296: Add buffer-matching functionality
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#54296: Add buffer-matching functionality |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Jun 2022 05:34:33 +0300 |
> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 22:46:49 +0300
> Cc: 54296@debbugs.gnu.org, philipk@posteo.net, larsi@gnus.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
>
> On 14.06.2022 22:17, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > No, I proposed to use the "predicate function" method (which already
> > exists).
>
> Then the downside is "it's not readable". Or editable, really.
>
> At this point you could say that we need to support lambas anyway (ok),
> and if people use them, we can use it for this purpose too.
>
> But it seems to me that, by not supporting lambdas so far, over the
> couple of years since its introduction, project-kill-buffer-conditions
> has kind of proven its minimal DSL to be viable.
>
> And if by having the 'major-mode eq' matcher we manage to avoid the use
> of lambdas in 99%+ use cases, then that's a win for usability.
This is all a moot point, since eventually 'major-mode' was left in
the code. Any of the suggestions I had for removing it are therefore
purely academic at this point, nothing to argue about.
- bug#54296: Add buffer-matching functionality, (continued)
bug#54296: Add buffer-matching functionality, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/13