From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-26 b90e91c: Fix last change of @key markup Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:12:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20180201175714.3571.11628@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20180201175715.624202068E@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <877erwpmvb.fsf@gmx.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517537646 3303 195.159.176.226 (2 Feb 2018 02:14:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 02:14:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 02 03:14:02 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ehQrE-0007mS-Rk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 03:13:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54887 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehQtF-0002E9-Q1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:15:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58393) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehQs5-0001ud-DX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:15:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehQr1-0003LM-9x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:14:33 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59142) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehQpu-0001sU-WF; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:12:19 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ehQpu-0001it-By; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:12:18 -0500 In-reply-to: <877erwpmvb.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Thu, 01 Feb 2018 19:48:24 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:222385 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Before changing how we handle SPC and DEL, let's look at the history of how this has been handled before over the 32 years since the Emacs Manual was first written. We might be cycling through choices tried before. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.