From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Recentish C-s M-y change Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:28:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87r1na4tyu.fsf@gnus.org> <87tus6tj7s.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87a6txigm1.fsf@gnus.org> <874kk5lzew.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87eej8ifll.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87h7o3k5b5.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <834kk1gk4b.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3373"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ghe@sdf.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 02 06:29:31 2021 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 1kvZTl-0000ku-O5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2021 06:29:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37286 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kvZTk-0003t7-QR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:29:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57224) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kvZSs-0003EF-MA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:28:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45889) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kvZSs-0004OO-C2; Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:28:34 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kvZSp-0002pv-KI; Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:28:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: <834kk1gk4b.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 01 Jan 2021 10:02:44 +0200) 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:262283 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. ]]] > > It is no surprise to me that I don't remember WHEN various keys > > were changed from the default meaning, of "exit the search and execute". > > There have been so many that I don't remember what they all are. > I would urge you (and other veteran Emacs users) to report any > annoying change as a bug the first time you see it. I saw many of them when they were proposed. I did not argue against them because there was apparent support for each one at the time. But so many of these search bindings have accumulated that it adds up to a problem -- and worst of all, people seem to be drawn to propose more changes in that keymap. -- 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)