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From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Emacs discussed on US NPR
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 22:47:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877frss7bu.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1432848455.17513.64.camel@mad-scientist.net> (Paul Smith's message of "Thu, 28 May 2015 17:27:35 -0400")

Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net> writes:

> On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 22:07 +0100, Phillip Lord wrote:
>> I remember a friend of mine complaining about this. A new release of
>> Emacs, now half the keybindings will have changed. Never having seen a
>> new release of Emacs, I stuck with the old version for quite a while.
>
> I think this is an overstatement: the keys I use 99% of the time every
> day haven't changed since I started using Emacs, which was a REALLY long
> time ago.

So I found out when I finally upgraded.

> What keybindings are we talking about?

I was going to say "I have no idea, it was a while back" but I found
this:

http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/emacs-18-19.html

I do have vague memories of the RMAIL "e" rebinding that it mentions;
scary.

I shall return to reminiscing about the good old days in private, don't
mind me.

Phil








  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-28 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.3857.1432838007.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-05-28 19:11 ` Emacs discussed on US NPR Stefan Monnier
2015-05-28 20:30   ` Drew Adams
2015-05-28 21:07     ` Phillip Lord
2015-05-28 21:27       ` Paul Smith
2015-05-28 21:47         ` Phillip Lord [this message]
     [not found]       ` <mailman.3870.1432848476.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-05-29  0:16         ` Barry Margolin
2015-05-29 10:14           ` Chris Van Dusen
2015-05-28 21:01   ` Phillip Lord
2015-05-28 21:25     ` Tim Johnson
2015-06-05  7:28     ` Eric S Fraga
     [not found]   ` <mailman.3863.1432845022.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-05-28 23:24     ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-29  7:36       ` Rainer M Krug
     [not found]       ` <mailman.3879.1432885005.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-05-29 18:50         ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-29 11:29   ` ken
2015-05-28 18:33 Tim Johnson

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