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Re: table.el
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: table.el |
Date: |
Mon, 03 Dec 2001 20:20:18 -0500 |
> The reason why I added such wrappers (although they're rather ad-hoc
> and very ugly as far as the code is concerned) was to improve the
> feature set and consistency of the interface, for the benefit of
> the user.
> There are other ways (less elegant, but straightforward) to implement
> the user interface feature itself. New Lisp-level features are not
> needed to *do* the job, only to make it more elegant.
I don't care so much about elegance as I care about robustness in the
face of further code maintenance.
> Making it more elegant is not always a worth-while use of time
> when our resources are limited. Other jobs that will improve
> Emacs for end users are much more important.
Sharing code that should be shared is a good way to improve Emacs
for the end user because it ensures that when something gets
fixed it gets fixed at all the places where it's used.
See src/w32*.c for examples,
Stefan
- Re: table.el, Tak Ota, 2001/12/01
- Re: table.el, Miles Bader, 2001/12/01
- Re: table.el, Tak Ota, 2001/12/01
- Re: table.el, Miles Bader, 2001/12/01
- Re: table.el, Stefan Monnier, 2001/12/01
- Re: table.el, Richard Stallman, 2001/12/02
- Re: table.el, Stefan Monnier, 2001/12/02
- Re: table.el, Richard Stallman, 2001/12/03
- Re: table.el,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: table.el, Richard Stallman, 2001/12/04
- Merging x*, w32* and mac* sources (was Re: table.el), Kim F. Storm, 2001/12/05
- Re: Merging x*, w32* and mac* sources (was Re: table.el), Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/05
- Re: Merging x*, w32* and mac* sources (was Re: table.el), Kim F. Storm, 2001/12/05
- Re: Merging x*, w32* and mac* sources (was Re: table.el), Jason Rumney, 2001/12/05
- Re: Merging x*, w32* and mac* sources (was Re: table.el), William M. Perry, 2001/12/05
- Re: Merging x*, w32* and mac* sources (was Re: table.el), Miles Bader, 2001/12/05
- Re: Merging x*, w32* and mac* sources (was Re: table.el), William M. Perry, 2001/12/12
- Re: Merging x*, w32* and mac* sources (was Re: table.el), Jason Rumney, 2001/12/05
- Re: Merging x*, w32* and mac* sources (was Re: table.el), Jason Rumney, 2001/12/05