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From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: JD Smith <jdsmith@as.arizona.edu>,
	Noah Friedman <friedman@splode.com>,
	rms@gnu.org, simon.marshall@misys.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: comint read-only prompt
Date: 22 Aug 2002 10:21:45 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo1y8radsm.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200208211523.g7LFNSQ24721@rum.cs.yale.edu>

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu> writes:
> > There are two types of people in the world:  ones who use C-a C-k when
> > they change their mind at a prompt, and ones who wail on the Delete key.
> 
> I don't know about you, but when I do C-a C-k in Emacs-21's *shell*
> buffer, I don't end up erasing the prompt.

I think his point was that the `wail on the Delete key' people do it
because that's what they're used to, and they're likely to continue
doing so, even if there are `better' methods available.

-Miles
-- 
"1971 pickup truck; will trade for guns"

  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-22  1:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-19  8:24 comint read-only prompt Marshall, Simon
2002-08-19 10:59 ` Miles Bader
2002-08-19 15:40   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-08-19 15:57     ` JD Smith
2002-08-19 23:45       ` Miles Bader
2002-08-20 16:14         ` Stefan Monnier
2002-08-21  0:12           ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-21 15:06             ` Stefan Monnier
2002-08-21  0:11         ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-20 17:21       ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-20 18:03         ` JD Smith
2002-08-20 21:17           ` Miles Bader
2002-08-20 22:01             ` JD Smith
2002-08-21  0:18               ` Miles Bader
2002-08-21  1:24                 ` JD Smith
2002-08-21  1:36                   ` Miles Bader
2002-08-21 15:28                     ` Stefan Monnier
2002-08-20 18:36         ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-08-20 21:12         ` Miles Bader
2002-08-20 23:23           ` Kim F. Storm
2002-08-21 11:05         ` Kai Großjohann
2002-08-22  1:57           ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-22  2:21             ` JD Smith
2002-08-22  2:35             ` Miles Bader
2002-08-24  2:33               ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-19 23:41     ` Miles Bader
2002-08-19 20:46 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-21  0:23   ` Noah Friedman
2002-08-21  0:23   ` Noah Friedman
2002-08-21  1:21     ` Miles Bader
2002-08-21  1:38       ` Miles Bader
2002-08-21  1:32     ` JD Smith
2002-08-21 15:23       ` Stefan Monnier
2002-08-22  1:21         ` Miles Bader [this message]
2002-08-22  7:57         ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-24  2:32           ` Richard Stallman

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