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"
next prev parent 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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