Re: On keybindings and the slow erosion of help's utility

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The temporary policy I announced is about installing LLM-output.
Posting examples of it is a different issue.

It is good that that issue has been raised, because it is significant.

In general, posting changes that cannot be installed can cause trouble
for the maintainers.  If the maintainers find them to be a good fix or
a desirable improvement, what should they then do?

They could write new code while going out of their way to make it so
different as to avoid copyright issues.  But that is extra work.  It
is generally easier to write your own code without the constraint to
avoid resemblance to something you have seen.

That is why I took care not to look at Unix source code when writing
programs to replace parts of it.

My suggestion is, send such code to the list only if one of the Emacs
maintainers asks you to.  Don't expose them and other developers to
something likely to be an obstacle to work one of them will need to do,
unless they judge it desirable.

  > However, FYI, what I posted is a
  > result of several dozens of iterations, later edited by me, and produced
  > with LLM specifically tuned to be more straight to the point.  I could
  > rewrite it myself, but that would honestly not gain much.

I think you mean it would not be a big technical improvement in the
code -- right?  That may be so, but it's a different issue.

However, this sort of working together with an LLM may be useful to
discuss specifically in the development of the criteria we are working
on.

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