> From: Stéphane Marks <shipmints@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 05:12:46 -0400
> Cc: 78843@debbugs.gnu.org, adam@alphapapa.net, sbaugh@janestreet.com,
> larsi@gnus.org, arstoffel@gmail.com, krisbalintona@gmail.com
>
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Is it really not feasible to have separate patches for each bugfix and
> each enhancement (or coherent set of enhancements)? What if we decide
> to install just some of these changes -- you'd need to update the
> entire large patch, instead of dropping a relatively small one and
> leaving the others intact.
>
> I hope we elect to adopt them all. It would be much more work to tease them all out piecemeal and wouldn't
> really, in the end, produce a better vtable.
Please also consider the inherent difficulties in reviewing such a
large (4K lines!) patch.
Let's start with the vtable users I looped in actually using it. I can attach a vtable.el without the patch file and make it easier.
> WRT quoting symbols, there are examples in the texinfo doc collection that suggest the convention is not
> enforced:
They are all bugs that need to be fixed. Patches welcome. "Not
enforced" would be a wrong conclusion from these omissions.
Cool. I have a patch or two to ediff coming and ediff doesn't follow ELisp formatting conventions which I found confusing.