From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Concern about new binding. Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2021 06:27:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20210202134950.vybbpf3iewbymfjo.ref@Ergus> <20210202134950.vybbpf3iewbymfjo@Ergus> <87lfc5s9wg.fsf@gmail.com> <87y2g5xurt.fsf@igel.home> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23145"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, gregory@heytings.org, rms@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 03 12:28:14 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 1l7GKT-0005ty-Vc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 12:28:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56660 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7GKS-0007VH-SM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 06:28:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54488) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7GJd-00072p-Tw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 06:27:21 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39637) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7GJc-0002Mj-Su; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 06:27:20 -0500 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l7GJa-0004ef-0u; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 06:27:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87y2g5xurt.fsf@igel.home> (message from Andreas Schwab on Wed, 03 Feb 2021 12:20:22 +0100) 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:263786 Archived-At: > Why not C-x M-u for revert-buffer? Why not M-x revert-buffer for revert-buffer? Why not M-x undo for undo? Why not M-x find-file for find file? Why not remove all keybindings and let users typ in sexps all the time? Why not use flip switches for proramming instead of having a keyboard? Because people want to use it, and people want to make things nicer.