From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David.Kastrup@t-online.de (David Kastrup) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs? Date: 05 Jun 2003 23:55:19 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3ED67422.7060305@math.ku.dk> <3EDDEAD1.80308@math.ku.dk> Reply-To: dak@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054852852 6358 80.91.224.249 (5 Jun 2003 22:40:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 22:40:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 06 00:40:50 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19O3O7-0001ZD-00 for ; Fri, 06 Jun 2003 00:39:15 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19O3gO-0006J0-00 for ; Fri, 06 Jun 2003 00:58:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19O3PG-0008Pa-Rd for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 18:40:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19O3Lt-0006r5-JY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 18:36:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19O3Do-0003pV-QS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 18:28:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout10.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.21]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19O2hp-0000Pz-PR; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 17:55:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fwd04.aul.t-online.de by mailout10.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 19O2hi-0000YT-00; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 23:55:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (Z4Qq6kZfoeDnkxjgWiy+AHiSsu7xZ3c1vkjj0EerNPVooC3mMC+rUG@[62.226.11.140]) by fwd04.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 19O2hd-1PuQOO0; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 23:55:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h55LtKuO001332; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 23:55:21 +0200 Original-Received: (from dak@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h55LtKhR001328; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 23:55:20 +0200 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-Seen: false X-ID: Z4Qq6kZfoeDnkxjgWiy+AHiSsu7xZ3c1vkjj0EerNPVooC3mMC+rUG@t-dialin.net X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14795 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14795 Richard Stallman writes: > They don't have the opportunity if you don't have > a) an easy way to configure keybindings manually > b) an easy way to carry your keybindings around on a floppy, web > site or USB stick. > > Please don't argue about this. We certainly want to have a better > user interface for customizing and saving key bindings. Nobody is > against it. We just need someone to write it. > > Would you like to write it? I'd like to manage having the time for properly working on those Emacs related projects that I am supposed to be actively maintaining. So I am afraid that in my personal queue, it is not likely to reach the front anytime soon. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum