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Re: Ugly regexps


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Ugly regexps
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 17:11:02 +0200

> Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 16:25:58 +0200
> 
> > More generally, I wish we stopped investing so much of our time and
> > energy in cleanups and other support tasks, and more to add
> > significant new applications and editing features.  That would make
> > more users happier, I think.
> 
> Perhaps if contributors didn't have to fight you about every little 
> thing they need to change or fix (or if you responded to arguments, at 
> least), we'll get more features over time. This is especially 
> discouraging when the disagreement is over a minor change in a package I 
> supposedly maintain (bug#44611 is the most glaring example).
> 
> I can't threaten to slam the door and leave every time this happens, but 
> this kind of malarkey sucks out a significant amount of time and enthusiasm.

Ah, okay.  So I'm the culprit.  Thanks, noted.



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