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: Emacs default bindings Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 02:04:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83tujbqg4j.fsf@gnu.org> <46353190-1190-495f-b15e-22980159b3ab@yandex.ru> <83y28mp0rb.fsf@gnu.org> <51a363db-fde7-791d-cf8d-98ac601d62ee@yandex.ru> <57ca4d78-2339-201d-edce-678c9b003a99@yandex.ru> <01341bd6-b94b-4f94-1461-405e723142ad@yandex.ru> <8735qmjklm.fsf@localhost> <87ilzi86h7.fsf@posteo.net> <875yvh9anq.fsf@posteo.net> <83o899yjh2.fsf@gnu.org> <2aed65dd-bcec-8e0e-e48b-7664a041f98b@yandex.ru> <3c4c22a2-b81f-a47b-a836-d52d8eeacdb4@yandex.ru> 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="29664"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, danflscr@gmail.com, lokedhs@gmail.com, yantar92@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 30 08:48:24 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 1mVprh-0007Qe-2N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2021 08:48:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56398 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mVprf-0003tJ-PB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2021 02:48:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50986) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mVpB5-0007XU-Bh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2021 02:04:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59600) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mVpB3-0002tZ-Ko; Thu, 30 Sep 2021 02:04:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mVpB3-0001RQ-GC; Thu, 30 Sep 2021 02:04:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <3c4c22a2-b81f-a47b-a836-d52d8eeacdb4@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Tue, 28 Sep 2021 03:23:40 +0300) 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:275853 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. ]]] > > This is very much a case of programmers imposing programmer defaults. > > But Emacs is not only used by programmers, it is a general purpose text > > editor. > But where does "code" begins and ends? It's not a crucial question. It's ok for a default to be rough and approximate, given that users can easily adjust it or override it. -- 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)