From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Stop fiddling with my preferences Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 15:31:43 +0100 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87sih0g3ow.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417357956 8148 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2014 14:32:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 14:32:36 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 30 15:32:29 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv5Y5-0001Cv-IM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 15:32:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50608 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv5Y4-0002Zd-V6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:32:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39472) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv5Xk-0002Z8-QM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:32:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv5XY-0003Ez-Vq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:32:08 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50162) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv5XY-0003Eh-PA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:31:56 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv5XX-0000x8-JH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 15:31:55 +0100 Original-Received: from p4fd4f67c.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([79.212.246.124]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 15:31:55 +0100 Original-Received: from dieter by p4fd4f67c.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 15:31:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p4fd4f67c.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6CfO6E7U2CRdes8hT/QEDYmIsi8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:178513 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> (set 'x-select-enable-clipboard nil) >> (set 'x-select-enable-primary t) >> (set 'select-active-regions nil) >> (set 'mouse-drag-copy-region t) >> (set 'delete-active-region nil) >> (set 'electric-indent-chars (remq ?\n electric-indent-chars)) > > Maybe it makes sense to complement the NEWS file with a "retro.el" file > (oh maybe it should be called "iwannagoback.el") which tries to bring > back the default behavior of previous releases. > > The main feature of this file (compared to NEWS which should already > contain this info) would be to be short. A Resurrection of ANTINEWS? Maybe a sort of, please! “For those users who live backwards in time, here is information about downgrading (to the behaviour) of Emacs version XX.X.” Dieter -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany