From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 23:04:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5230692c-c665-a330-7a12-e59fa25d97dd@gmail.com> <70bb51fd-447d-928c-4d69-1c9673a44471@online.de> <871rnnvmdx.fsf@red-bean.com> <87pnb7sira.fsf@red-bean.com> <87lflcg0k9.fsf@red-bean.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="106900"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: andreas.roehler@online.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Karl Fogel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 29 05:04:56 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jeVKK-000RgV-JG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 29 May 2020 05:04:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50516 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jeVKJ-0005HD-Kg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 23:04:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55718) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jeVJq-0004re-Et for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 23:04:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47139) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jeVJp-0007QU-UB; Thu, 28 May 2020 23:04:25 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jeVJp-0000Wb-1g; Thu, 28 May 2020 23:04:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87lflcg0k9.fsf@red-bean.com> (message from Karl Fogel on Wed, 27 May 2020 23:12:22 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:251599 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. ]]] > I don't think the issue is ignorance about C-g. It's that people > have a relationship with software interfaces in which they're not > accustomed to being bitten. Even when the bite draws no blood, > they still don't like the feeling. ... > Again, none of the above is meant to suggest that Emacs should > change something. I'm just saying that we should be intentional > about the kinds of users Emacs is likely to attract, and not make > changes designed around people who are unlikely to be long-term > Emacs users anyway. That sounds like valid reasoning to me. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)