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: Suggested experimental test Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 01:16:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <831ba60af0cbfdd95686@heytings.org> <87mtuxj8ue.fsf@gnus.org> <9088e12cb3de3d30abf1@heytings.org> <8735wnjsum.fsf@gnus.org> <83sg4n9jei.fsf@gnu.org> <271290d7aac58f2f9e96@heytings.org> <83czvr9hvc.fsf@gnu.org> <271290d7aa69bbcaa204@heytings.org> <83lfae8fbg.fsf@gnu.org> <22aaf0fadd0894af49d9@heytings.org> <83v99i6ink.fsf@gnu.org> <22aaf0fadd0870c0e9f8@heytings.org> <22aaf0fadda0f9d9bc03@heytings.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="36191"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, ams@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 24 06:17:43 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 1lOvtn-0009Jy-RR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2021 06:17:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53490 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lOvtm-0006Jm-NP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2021 01:17:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52864) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lOvsS-0005fM-7D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2021 01:16:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48033) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lOvsR-0000Vd-RO; Wed, 24 Mar 2021 01:16:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lOvsP-0000kl-Qx; Wed, 24 Mar 2021 01:16:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <22aaf0fadda0f9d9bc03@heytings.org> (message from Gregory Heytings on Tue, 23 Mar 2021 21:06:54 +0000) 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:266916 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. ]]] > C-o in the original Emacs didn't quite do what C-o now does: the line(s) > created by C-o were "eated" by the text that was inserted. In other > words, RET in the line(s) created with C-o did not push the next lines > down, it went on the next created line (if any). For historical accuracy, I should correct that statement. C-o inserted a line break in the buffer after point. RET advanced over a newline into a blank line; otherwise it inserted a newline. In this way, RET would eat up the blank lines. Both of them operated by modifying the buffer, and the screen reflected the buffer contents. I sometimes made several black lines with C-u C-o or C-u C-u C-o, then filled them in, advancing by RET. At the end, if exta blank lines remained, I removed them with C-x C-o. -- 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)