Re: Adding transient to Emacs core

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 23:26:19 +0530 (IST)
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Madhu <enometh@meer.net>
> 
> *  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> <83r1ixjmaw.fsf@gnu.org>
> Wrote on Mon, 26 Apr 2021 14:51:51 +0300
> > Then please describe those problems in detail, preferably in a bug
> > report.
> 
> I believe I did that in sufficient detail - my message detailed the
> exact assumptions made by jonas' code and the exact scenarios in which
> those assumptions fail.
> 
> Did you read it for the details?

Of course.  It still left me wondering about the specifics.

> >> Until these issues are addressed I would prefer that new code in the
> >> core not use transient.el
> >
> > We cannot agree with this conclusion unless we understand the details.
> 
> I believe Jonas understands the problems but isn't concerned about the
> failure scenarios.

I would like to understand the problem myself in sufficient detail.

> The main issue is there can be (very reasonable) situations in which
> you will not be able to give emacs input when prompted by transient.

I asked to describe them in enough detail for someone like me to
understand and be able to reason about them.