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authorKévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>2019-07-11 18:10:53 +0200
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-# Emacs
-
-## 2019-01
-
-### [Apropos 54f297904e0c: Temporarily comment out CC Mode from tests which are incompatible with it.][cc-mode/electric-pair]
-
-A thread that feels very representative of the friction between
-"keeping things working as they always did" vs. "simplifying that huge
-lumbering beast of a codebase". I find [Stefan Monnier's
-intervention][cc-mode/electric-pair-stefan] helpful because it
-captures both sides of the argument quite well:
-
-> >> I understand that there's a transition needed between these two and this
-> >> intermediate state can require more work, but it's important to keep the
-> >> long term goal in mind when designing the current solution.
-> > Whose long term goal?
->
-> At the very least mine.
->
-> > My goal, both long and short term, is to keep CC Mode
-> > working properly.
->
-> That's orthogonal.
->
-> To give you a similarly general goal, my own goal is to make it so that
-> **any feature which makes sense in many major mode be implemented once and
-> then used in the relevant major modes, rather than being implemented
-> independently for those major modes.**
->
-> This is both for uniformity between major modes, and because it both
-> simplifies and improves many major modes (which would otherwise either
-> not provide the feature or only in very primitive ways).
->
-> **And those maintainers like you who did go to the trouble of being early
-> implementers of the feature suffer through the pain of having to adapt
-> their code once the generic version of the feature becomes available.**
-> Sometimes even at the cost of having the new feature working slightly
-> worse in some corner cases.
->
-> But many of them are quite happy to be able to drop their old code and
-> get rid of that responsibility (i.e. bug reports about regressions can
-> be redirected to Emacs maintainers).
-
-On a non-technical note, this thread allowed RMS to advertise the [GNU
-Kind Communications Guidelines][gnu-kind-communication]:
-
-> To ask "who started it" is to oversimplify. Often what happens
-> is that a little harshness creeps into a discussion, then people
-> react to that in a way that is a little more harsh. So nobody
-> "started it" but multiple people exacerbated it.
->
-> **Thus, part of the effort is, when we feel harshness coming at us,
-> to damp it down rather than hitting back.**
-
-[cc-mode/electric-pair]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-01/msg00360.html
-[cc-mode/electric-pair-stefan]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-01/msg00518.html
-[gnu-kind-communication]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html
-
-### [Documentation about the completion framework][completion-documentation]
-
-Helpful pointers for whoever wants to dig into completion plumbing.
-Personally, I struggled to get to grips with it when [debugging some
-`icomplete` issue][icomplete-issue], relying on the source for
-information, and giving up while trying to write an automated test
-case.
-
-[completion-documentation]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-01/msg00504.html
-[icomplete-issue]: https://gitlab.com/peniblec/memory-leaks/commit/dcc0c05dc1f6a22645bf9355b72aa44b49776620