From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alan E. Davis" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 11:29:08 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87litcvtu2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <1317749925.66315.YahooMailNeo@web161610.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e65b5d52f2f9a204ae7d60ac X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317753452 10031 80.91.229.12 (4 Oct 2011 18:37:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 18:37:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" , "info-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" , "emacs-delete-poll@gnu.org" To: S Boucher Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 04 20:37:28 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RB9rr-0004ZD-Ib for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:37:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41706 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RB9rr-0003T6-0D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:37:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59045) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RB9rh-0003II-P8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:37:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RB9rc-0001XY-8F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:37:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wy0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:59895) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RB9rZ-0001Wm-Jy; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:37:09 -0400 Original-Received: by wyf22 with SMTP id 22so1015853wyf.0 for ; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:37:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=bG59mcjjFNJqHZpohRLhRDDAm+h0XFkdwiWy4Ixva9k=; b=GhIcvRg6a3KjSB+d+3/PyFUDCc5vyG6l8eZ6PtYeX9H+v9j2UWoevUEUm3/KgXUnbv vLpXfkiQjSCsIsXvKMe2LzSvKcMSwlRa1OonLdQDhrI/igB4UkI+QfrOXt0ThQEGOgfU BwlM/yLqVS1SVp+pfjKjcOUZqpvdrbK0j93tg= Original-Received: by 10.216.159.133 with SMTP id s5mr1872260wek.27.1317753427523; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:37:07 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.216.28.130 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 11:29:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1317749925.66315.YahooMailNeo@web161610.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 74.125.82.169 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82460 Archived-At: --0016e65b5d52f2f9a204ae7d60ac Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Above all, do no harm. I am opposed because I fear my ingrained habits would thrown me under a train. The del key is not the backspace key, by the way. The differences between the ways these keys work, or not, seems like a theological argument. Forgive me for not answering each point. I am pretty strongly opposed. I am a mostly non-programmer, for whom Emacs is an underpinning of my work style. Alan Davis --0016e65b5d52f2f9a204ae7d60ac Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Above all, do no harm.=A0=A0

I am opposed because I fear my ingrain= ed habits would thrown me under a train.=A0=A0 The del key is not the backs= pace key, by the way.=A0=A0 The differences between the ways these keys wor= k, or not, seems like a theological argument.=A0=A0

Forgive me for not answering each point.=A0=A0 I am pretty strongly opp= osed.

I am a mostly non-programmer, for whom Emacs is an underpinnin= g of my work style.=A0=A0

Alan Davis
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