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: Keybinding styles (was: [External] : Re: Gitlab Migration) Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 23:16:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87lf4dnk0z.fsf@gmail.com> 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="26735"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: theophilusx@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Yates Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 07 05:17:08 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 1mNRbf-0006lJ-W0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2021 05:17:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34588 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNRbe-0004sz-Lf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 23:17:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53074) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNRax-0003Ut-4A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 23:16:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34772) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNRaw-0007Oj-RX; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 23:16:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNRau-0006mS-Lt; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 23:16:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from John Yates on Sun, 5 Sep 2021 15:03:54 -0400) 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:274187 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. ]]] > As a first step towards Stefan's wish, might I suggest that we > consider what it would take to move to a world in which other > binding schemes are considered fully equal peers of our current > default bindings? If "fully equal peers" means that we give them as much support to each of them as we do to the Emacs key bindings, we shouldn't. It would be an enormous amount of work, and not worth it. We won't urge people to make a version of the Emacs Manual that uses a different set of key bindings, nor to update it for each Emacs version. It's reasonable to support selecting other sets of key bindings, but the implementing them and supporting them will have to be up to whoever likes each one. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)