From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:56:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83lj6zz9o0.fsf@gnu.org> <87bp7setll.fsf@altern.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285117032 25628 80.91.229.12 (22 Sep 2010 00:57:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:57:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, eliz@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, miles@gnu.org To: Bastien Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 22 02:57:09 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyDdy-0007jl-Av for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 02:57:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53439 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OyDdw-0005jx-B5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:57:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44817 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OyDdr-0005j5-2m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:56:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyDdp-00020j-ND for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:56:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:49477) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyDdp-00020e-LO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:56:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyDdm-00082X-HH; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:56:54 -0400 In-reply-to: <87bp7setll.fsf@altern.org> (message from Bastien on Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:56:22 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:130590 Archived-At: This is not a rhetoric question: maybe Emacs history has shown polls are not effective, leading to more debate and less consensus; or maybe users don't like polls. I did on the order of 10 polls while I was Emacs maintainer, and I am very glad I did. They gave a lot of useful information.