Re: Algorithm in electric-pair--unbalanced-strings-p unsuitable for CC Mode

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 03.07.2019 16:32, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> Yes.  As you'll have noticed, this is an adversarial debate rather than
> a constructive cooperation, and expecting me to put in unnecessary work
> in order to assist my opponent in making a point against me is not
> reasonable.

IME even the adversarial debates, when treated as such, tend to waste 
extra time from all parties involved. You might remember a few of those.

> Surely it is a matter of plain ettiquette: for the writer to put in that
> little extra bit of work himself, rather than forcing his readers to do
> it.  When writing, I always do this myself.

I don't think so. It seems much easier to call 'git show' than to 
manually format a reference in the format that you requested. Some email 
clients might even do that automatically.

I wouldn't want to see this written into the general rules of 
discussions on this mailing list.

> Besides[2], the next time we move to a new VCS, the reference will
> become totally meaningless.

I'm not buying this, sorry. Anybody doing software archaeology in the 
year 2040 would probably be able to dig out a Git repository of Emacs as 
well.

And anyway, it seems like Git is here to stay. By the time we migrate 
off it, it's most likely we've moved away from mailing lists as the 
discussion medium.