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On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Stefan Monnier posted:
>> Why should users expect surprises?
> To spice things up, of course.

Young system programmers seem to do this a lot, before they acquire the 
judgement to know better.

>>> As I said before, the line-move-visual setting has been a complex decision
>>> for the developers.
>> And they screwed it up.
> Yup, big time,

Indeed.

-- Mark --

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