From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs? Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 08:52:26 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3ED6FFAA.3040004@math.ku.dk> References: <3ED67422.7060305@math.ku.dk> <20030529214728.GA24984@gnu.org> <3ED68408.4080700@math.ku.dk> <20030529224526.GA5943@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054277573 19830 80.91.224.249 (30 May 2003 06:52:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 06:52:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri May 30 08:52:52 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Ldkg-00059J-00 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 08:52:34 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19Ldzi-0000Lv-00 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 09:08:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19LdmF-0006oM-26 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 30 May 2003 02:54:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19Ldld-0006QP-BR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2003 02:53:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19Ldl5-0005K1-Nj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2003 02:53:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [62.84.220.10] (helo=post.kabelnettet.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Ldja-0003tS-Qz; Fri, 30 May 2003 02:51:27 -0400 Original-Received: from math.ku.dk [62.84.220.219] by post.kabelnettet.dk with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.14) id A05622A023C; Fri, 30 May 2003 08:55:18 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: <20030529224526.GA5943@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14463 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14463 Miles Bader wrote: >[and there's a certain point at which we _want_ to force people to come to >grips with emacs' different style, because it will help them in the future >(the whole give-a-fish/teach-to-fish thing)] > > That is a good point. But I believe people have so different ways to work that there is no single style that is the best for everybody.