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From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regression in `org-todo'
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:40:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehs5iwpk.fsf@altern.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7135.1333402849@alphaville> (Nick Dokos's message of "Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:40:49 -0400")

Hi Nick,

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:

> Michael Strey <mstrey@strey.biz> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bastien,
>> 
>> On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 05:03:04PM +0200, Bastien wrote:
>> > ...
>> > Please test against latest HEAD and tell me if your problem is still
>> > here, it shouldn't.
>>  
>> I confirm that the problem is solved.  Thank you!
>> 
>> It's interesting to see how a bug in a module from the contrib path can
>> cause strange behaviour of org-mode's core functions.
>> 
>
> There is no distinction between contrib and core. Once a module is
> loaded (wherever it comes from), it is part of emacs and can cause all
> kinds of damage: not just to org, but to the whole running emacs. It's
> the price one pays for the convenience of dynamically loading code.  You
> can avoid the danger by not loading modules, but then emacs becomes much
> less interesting: after all, the "e" stands for "extensible".

If the features provided by org-checklist.el are useful to many people, 
including them in core seems quite natural.  I don't use it myself, I'm
just wondering how people do.  But I agree with you here that we should
not move things into core inconsiderately.

-- 
 Bastien

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-02 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-01 15:01 Regression in `org-todo' Moritz Ulrich
2012-04-01 18:35 ` [URGENT] " Moritz Ulrich
2012-04-01 20:29   ` Bastien
2012-04-01 20:37     ` Bastien
2012-04-02 14:54 ` Michael Strey
2012-04-02 15:03   ` Bastien
2012-04-02 20:44     ` Michael Strey
2012-04-02 21:07       ` Bastien
2012-04-02 21:43         ` Nick Dokos
     [not found]       ` <mstrey@strey.biz>
2012-04-02 21:40         ` Nick Dokos
2012-04-02 22:40           ` Bastien [this message]
2012-04-02 23:18             ` Bernt Hansen

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