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Originally Posted by q345
All I am telling is that the functionality IS there, people USE it now, more people will ask for it and WILL USE it in the future, and the only problem is where to keep this knowledge : in Preferences, in FAQs, in Manual or leave it (as it now) on this forum in this thread.
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There is another problem beyond reliability. It is likely that the undocumented feature being depended upon will go away in 0.8, when (if things go well) the library structure is reorganized to use plug-in storage backends. This is what Kovid was talking about when he said that he won't guarantee the technique's availability. Even though it sometimes happens, encouraging people to use and depend upon something and then take it away is not a good idea.
The above notwithstanding, the project is open source. People will look for and find ways to use it that are not expected or supported. This is a good thing, encouraging a fountain of ideas like yours. If you want to write the manual for some of the hacks, you should do so. That makes the information available without creating commitments for Kovid. Instead, it creates commitments for you.
