From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Calc: `*' binds more strongly than `/' Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:05:08 +0200 Message-ID: <85647s8fcr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177002358 21845 80.91.229.12 (19 Apr 2007 17:05:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:05:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 19 19:05:51 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hea4M-0000f4-0O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:05:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hea9J-0000ci-MI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:10:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hea9F-0000cS-FW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:10:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hea9E-0000cG-2g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:10:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hea9D-0000cD-Ny for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:10:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-13.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.53]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hea4F-0007lL-6z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:05:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-14-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-14-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.31]) by mail-in-13.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 982CD1E535B; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:05:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (mail-in-06.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.46]) by mail-in-14-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F14100CC; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:05:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-077-077.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.77.77]) by mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 665DD35E5AE; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:05:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 7D6291C39511; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:05:08 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Thu\, 19 Apr 2007 08\:16\:01 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.98 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:69645 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > I really have not followed this thread, but, viewed from 3000 m, it > sounds as if different people have different preferences. Couldn't > Emacs just offer a few precedence options, so users could choose the > behavior they want? (Then, of course, you could argue over the > default value ;-).) Personal preference options for a _language_ don't make much sense. They would keep programs from working everywhere. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum