Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

> It should do so as an option, with the alternative being to ask for
> confirmation (this would be automatically satisfied if input and
> output rawbytes handlers were separate) if nonconforming output would
> be produced.  Emacs of *all* editors should not produce non-conforming
> output silently (unless explicitly silenced), even if it got
> non-conforming input.

That sounds like you are talking about a processing pipe.  An editor is
not really the same.  Even for something like sed I'd expect no changes
in parts that are, well, not changed.  Much more so for a proper editor.

-- 
David Kastrup