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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>,
	David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting]
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 22:28:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080407222858.GF2078@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8763uuegf4.fsf@stupidchicken.com>

Hi, Yidong!

On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 07:01:51PM -0400, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

[ .... ]

> If you want to avoid tmm entirely, you could, y'know, avoid using the
> mouse...

Yes, of course.  And I will.

But that's not the point.  I _care_ deeply about Emacs, like everybody
else on this mailing list.  Not just about how you can configure it, but
how it appears to the new user.  I want the hacker who takes up Emacs
23, or 24, or 25, to get that same "Eureka!" feeling that I got way back
when.  The feeling that Emacs is _different_, that it's _right_, that
it's _special_ - that when you ask a question, the answer is "yes".

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).




  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-07 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-06 19:43 rampant region highlighting Glenn Morris
2008-04-06 21:50 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-06 22:00   ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-06 22:17     ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-06 22:52   ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-06 23:00   ` Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting] Alan Mackenzie
2008-04-06 23:01     ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-07 22:28       ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2008-04-07 22:18         ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-06 23:50     ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-06 23:58       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-07  1:19         ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-07  4:33           ` visual marks [was: " Drew Adams
2008-04-07 15:43             ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-07 16:03               ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-07 17:40                 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-07 17:02               ` Drew Adams
2008-04-07  0:49       ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-04-07 21:26       ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-04-07 21:37         ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-08 10:05           ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-04-08 10:20             ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-08 15:35           ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-07 23:07         ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-08 10:31           ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-04-08 17:52             ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-04-08 18:09               ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-07 23:54         ` Mathias Dahl
2008-04-06 22:09 ` rampant region highlighting Chong Yidong
2008-04-06 22:18   ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-06 22:37     ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-07 15:22     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-07 18:30       ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-07 19:21         ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-07 20:25           ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-07 21:01             ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-07 21:13               ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-07 21:54                 ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-07  4:30   ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-07 18:29     ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-06 23:40 ` Thomas Lord

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