>>>> "Kyle" == Kyle Jones
<kyle_jones(a)wonderworks.com> writes:
Kyle> If we're getting more bogus warnings than real warnings then
Kyle> that is the signal that the ebola-check code should be
Kyle> removed.
This is not true for me. Of the two Ebola warnings I remember seeing
in the last 6 months, the one in AUC-TeX is due to use of
`previous-char' instead of `char-before' (a distant cousin of Ebola),
and the one in W3 was genuine Ebola. The AUC-TeX "bug" would never
cause a problem, unless the TeX file was broken and included NULLs,
but the W3 bug did cause broken display, and it is highly unlikely
that I would have been able to track it down without the Ebola
warning. I don't know, maybe Bill Perry would have found it trivial.
But in the event, I could supply the symptom, the bug, and a trial
patch.
I don't have any objection to removing it from the defaults, since it
clearly is a massive annoyance to many testers; but my usage patterns
evidently throw up few false positives (and these are hardly annoying
to me personally), so to me it is still a useful option, one which I
would turn on if available.
I have no idea what it costs to maintain the code, though.
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