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: cua-mode and the tutorial Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:44:46 +0200 Message-ID: <85hczzbr9d.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <44C8F069.1070002@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156596333 15730 80.91.229.2 (26 Aug 2006 12:45:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:45:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 26 14:45:31 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GGxXQ-0002iA-Gb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:45:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GGxXQ-0006lM-3x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:45:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GGxXA-0006i1-Ss for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:45:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GGxX9-0006gf-ME for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GGxX9-0006g8-AK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GGxfe-0002Ov-JA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:53:54 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GGxX1-00080U-7C; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:44:59 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 318401D4B8EF; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:44:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:22:43 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:58913 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > In one case, it is set system wide in site-load.el. > > No one should do that! People are not supposed to start off > new users with nonstandard Emacs settings. > > I think I will put something into startup.el to make this > cease to take effect. I think that would be a bad idea because it is would be obscure. We should not artificially hamper the freedom of people to decide how Emacs is best used at their site. The best we can do is educate them. Everything else leads to an arms' race of technical measures trying to thwart the other's intentions. We don't want to do that. Really. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum