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: Introducing thread-safe Tramp Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2018 21:59:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <<8736wa9c5s.fsf@gmx.de> <87wotkn6do.fsf@gmx.de> > <<874lgn8x6l.fsf@gmx.de> > <<87sh44pisz.fsf@gmx.de> <87a7qbitc7.fsf@gmx.de>> < <878t5tdsfc.fsf@gmx.de>> <<83wotcpzub.fsf@gnu.org> <87bmaiuwml.fsf@gmx.de> <877el6uwio.fsf@gmx.de>> <<7c28f9d8-e2bb-4778-ab92-92707f12718f@default>> <<837el6t8r3.fsf@gnu.org>> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1533434267 28172 195.159.176.226 (5 Aug 2018 01:57:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2018 01:57:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: fgunbin@fastmail.fm, eliz@gnu.org, michael.albinus@gmx.de, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 05 03:57:42 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 1fm8Ib-00078B-EV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2018 03:57:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56801 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fm8Ki-0002wE-2N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Aug 2018 21:59:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52015) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fm8KZ-0002nJ-8P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Aug 2018 21:59:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fm8KY-0002i8-Gf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Aug 2018 21:59:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55324) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fm8KL-0002TU-VG; Sat, 04 Aug 2018 21:59:26 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fm8KL-0001B7-Fl; Sat, 04 Aug 2018 21:59:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 4 Aug 2018 09:27:32 -0700 (PDT)) 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:228180 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. ]]] > Even `C-u' (`universal-argument') is not a prefix argument. It is a command that begins reading a prefix argument and that, possibly together with other commands (such as `digit-argument') provides that prefix argument to a followup command. We think of C-u as beginning a prefix argument, without exception. Sometimes the prefix argument consists of C-u and nothing but C-u. However, I agree it is clearest NOT to think of C-x RET c as a prefix argument. The prefix argument is a specific kind of value and that is not how C-x RET c works. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)