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Re: Current mode command discovery
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Current mode command discovery |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 21:25:19 +0200 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 18:49:42 +0100
> Cc: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Because whoever marked it "nonsensical" made a mistake? Or because
> > time passed, things have changed, and what made no sense back then may
> > make sense now, and Emacs maintainers missed that or couldn't keep up?
> >
> > IOW, let's not assume that the marking is perfect. It's done by us,
> > and we can make mistakes.
>
> Any code can have bugs. That doesn't stop us from writing code or
> designing systems.
>
> If there's a bug, we fix the bug.
What do you tell a user who cannot invoke a command? "Wait for the
next release"?
That's why "fire escapes" are useful: they are Plan B for when the
unexpected strikes.
> But it's extremely unlikely that the tagging of, say, `eww-readable'
> will change.
Unexpected problems are always unexpected, they cannot be known in
advance. Therefore, examples don't help, because examples always talk
about something we considered and made a decision about. Whereas
"fire escapes" are about risk management, not about design.
- Re: Current mode command discovery, (continued)
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/16
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/16
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/16
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/17
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/17
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Richard Stallman, 2021/02/18
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Óscar Fuentes, 2021/02/16
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/17
- Re: Current mode command discovery, tomas, 2021/02/17
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/17
- Re: Current mode command discovery,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/17
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Óscar Fuentes, 2021/02/17
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/17
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Richard Stallman, 2021/02/19
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/19
- Re: Current mode command discovery, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/19
- Re: Current mode command discovery, chad, 2021/02/19
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- RE: [External] : Re: Current mode command discovery, Drew Adams, 2021/02/19
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