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: Concern about new binding. Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:49:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87zh0mmr54.fsf@gmail.com> <87y2g5smya.fsf@gmail.com> <4FF55FBF-573D-4A70-B3FC-682CA25B7ECB@gnu.org> <83lfc53whk.fsf@gnu.org> <20210203180142.seu6o3i6u7jhkyrh@Ergus> <83eehx3to5.fsf@gnu.org> <20210203221628.xgvvxjvh56gyswba@Ergus> <20210204070033.pm4ido4hq7a6twif@Ergus> <83sg6brhyg.fsf@gnu.org> <83eehvre5k.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="19333"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: gregory@heytings.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 05 06:51:22 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 1l7u1Y-0004sd-GC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 06:51:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37762 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7u1X-0001fj-Cr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:51:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52152) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7tzd-0007ft-Qe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:49:22 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54469) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7tzc-0002ma-OF; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:49:21 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l7tza-0003jm-Qp; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:49:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83eehvre5k.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 04 Feb 2021 18:28:07 +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:263939 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. ]]] > > BTW, Richard replied to the "C-x G" proposal: "Letters following C-x are > > not case-sensitive. That is a systematic rule. That rule is not sacred; > > for a good enough reason, we could break it. But this is not an important > > reason; it is not sufficient reason to break a rule." > I keep that in mind as well. But if enough people are okay with "C-x G" > we might decide to break that rule here anyway. Let's first look for other solutions which are good enough don't break a rule. Perhaps not making a new binding for revert-buffer is an adequate solution. -- 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)