From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Case Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Need an enabler for a bad habit. Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:28:06 -0500 Message-ID: <1162423686.2545.85.camel@CASE> References: <877iygcrtx.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <1162399115.2545.43.camel@CASE> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162423768 12591 80.91.229.2 (1 Nov 2006 23:29:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 23:29:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 02 00:29:27 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GfPWB-0005jv-1g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:29:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GfPWA-0002C6-Db for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:29:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GfPVs-00026Q-NT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:28:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GfPVq-000245-OM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:28:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GfPVq-00023u-HF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:28:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [206.190.36.80] (helo=smtp102.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GfPVq-0003Yd-Et for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:28:50 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 1560 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2006 23:28:49 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:Subject:From:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Date:Message-Id:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=nxD4xmNChIoA6WYuY9bdg4EWxHgytJgRYwnD/JPMZUgHglAJcTVhqgUgX7Ndz7vhRpPK3XhgX801mUWW4K2Jpw6TnxM8IkfOWTtazAIbSqbG4vOi6mkxthL3aOLWUQzz6P7xIpD8bL0WG6yIe8aLExJ3vCmJ9eJoWBsUSvfh3Qw= ; Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.4?) (billlinux@rogers.com@74.104.100.126 with plain) by smtp102.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Nov 2006 23:28:49 -0000 Original-To: Kevin Rodgers In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 (2.6.3-1.fc5.5) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38478 Archived-At: A P.S. Kevin On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 13:17 -0700, Kevin Rodgers wrote: > William Case wrote: > > > > It is a habit that comes from 30 years of being a computer user. > > My habits come from 23 years of being an Emacs user :-) > My comment was meant to indicate how ingrained my conditioned response (habit) is. It no way was meant to imply any authority over how emacs should work. I have only been using emacs on an occasional basis for two years. My prior computer experience was always as a users user, typing reports and business plans in word processors and spreadsheets in fields completely divorced from IT. Your 23 years certainly trumps my very few Linux years. (I would type a smiley here except I have sworn a dire oath against the use of smileys.) -- Regards Bill