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From: | Gregory Heytings |
Subject: | bug#48249: 28.0.50; Regression: emacs confused about window configuration due to ido-mode and/or winner-mode |
Date: | Thu, 06 May 2021 08:17:59 +0000 |
I wonder how many more bug reports are needed before the lesson of that failed experiment will finally be drawn.Significant changes in low-level infrastructure frequently cause a trail of unintended consequences that need to be fixed.
When a low-level infrastructure has worked flawlessly for more than a decade, making significant changes in it without making them conditional to a run-time variable or a compilation option, until the new code is "proven" enough, is unwise. That's what happened with native compilation for example, or with Cairo, or... And this is all I asked when this experiment started.
If you think what we saw till now as result of that changeset is a catastrophe, you just didn't see enough serious low-level changes in Emacs yet.
Did other low-level changes in Emacs result in segfaults and several bug reports of confused users each week? I'd hope not.
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