> From: Leo <sdl....@gmail.com> > Cc: Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net>, roucaries.bast...@gmail.com, > egg...@cs.ucla.edu, bug-gnulib@gnu.org, monn...@iro.umontreal.ca, > emacs-de...@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:42:13 +0800 > > On 2011-01-26 02:48 +0800, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > You are talking about costs? How about _my_ costs -- the need to > > endure these endless "why-don't-you-go-away-with-your-stupid-DOS" > > discussions? Here's Miles again, asking his perennial "how many users > > are there", here's Leo inventing "loads of weird files" that somehow > > are the fault of supporting the DOS port, here's Ulrich Mueller > > reminding me that I asked for eliminating file-name clashes in > > CEDET (in Oct 2009!)... > > Please don't take that personally.
Everything is personal in this world. People who don't take things personal are people you should stay away of. > People are annoyed by 8+3 not by you > and we users value very much your tireless and long-term contribution to > Emacs. The thing though is 8+3 is on everybody's mind so they will > unconsciously name files that way even in cases difficult to do so. Well, let your consciousness kick in. > BTW, what I meant by weirdly-named files are, for example, those c.el, > dired.el etc in cedet. One has to look at its enclosing directory to > guess what it does. And cedet-dired.el is more helpful how?
