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S Boucher |
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Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete] |
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Tue, 4 Oct 2011 15:09:36 -0700 (PDT) |
----- Original Message -----
>( Again) Though some believe it makes more sense to bottom-post and/or respond
> interlinearly, most people using email top-post. So we should all start
> doing
> what most people do. :P
Is it just me that has the impression that you are being argumentative just for
the sake of being argumentative?
Let me ask you: Leaving aside the technical merrits for a moment, if rms goes
ahead with the change for the sake of being coherent with other applications
and make it easier for the newbies, are you going to survive or are you going
to give up Emacs? How painful will the survival be?
> C-p - Print the file
>
> C-n - New file
>
> C-a - select All
>
> C-q - Quit
>
> These changes will make it easier for those new to emacs. In that they are
> culturally biased towards those who speak English, there are good reasons for
> them.
Sigh! You like to be argumentative...
And we all know that Emacs is not the least bit biased towards English.
C-p - previous-line
C-n - next-line
C-y - yank
C-k - kill-line
Furthermore, if - and that's a big IF - the various letter choices (C-a, C-w,
C-x, etc) had anything to do with ergonomics, those without a qwerty keyboards
might be getting a raw deal.
I'm a long time emacs user and love it, but it's not like every decision ever
made in emacs is always right. I recall having to use C-x@ to set mark (that's
having to type C-x S-2) to set mark in some instances when I couldn't get
C-<space> to work. Non-working C-<space> was probably one of the most frequent
issue brought up in gnu.emacs.help back then.
We should really put this to rest, but that's just my opinion...
- Re: "like other editors" [, (continued)
- Re: "like other editors" [, ken, 2011/10/03
- Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete], Andreas Röhler, 2011/10/03
- Re: "like other editors" [, Richard Riley, 2011/10/03
- Re: "like other editors" [, Richard Riley, 2011/10/03
- Re: "like other editors" [, Ian Zimmerman, 2011/10/03
- Re: "like other editors" [, Rasmus, 2011/10/03
- Re: "like other editors" [, ken, 2011/10/03
- Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete], Richard Stallman, 2011/10/03
- Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete], Jeremiah Dodds, 2011/10/04
- Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete], ken, 2011/10/04
- Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete],
S Boucher <=
- Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete], ken, 2011/10/04
- Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete], Jeremiah Dodds, 2011/10/04
- Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete], ken, 2011/10/04
- Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete], Jeremiah Dodds, 2011/10/04
- Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete], ken, 2011/10/04
- Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete], Jai Dayal, 2011/10/04
- Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete], Jeremiah Dodds, 2011/10/04
- Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete], S Boucher, 2011/10/04
- Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete], Richard Stallman, 2011/10/05
- Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete], Rustom Mody, 2011/10/05