Re: address@hidden: asymmetries and contradictions in shell navigation using C-a and C-e on a prompt line]

[Miles Bader]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> > What are you talking about?  I mean _I've_ thought about how things
> > work, and considered the important cases when the current mechanism is
> > confusing in this way, and decided that this is a good solution.
> 
> Ok, but why do you ask people what they think and whether there are
> other ways to fix this? 

Because some people may have good ideas, or point out problems.

You asked the odd question `How does emacs know when it's currently in
an important case,' and I was pointing out that `important case' merely
referred the way I had thought about the problem.  [That's why I
emphasized `I've' -- not as some sort of claim of authority, but to
contrast with `emacs'.]

-Miles
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