From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs? Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:01:37 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <842d10e8-4efb-447a-b863-09d81105d7a1@a8g2000pri.googlegroups.com> <878vx5mih4.fsf@gmail.com> <35d84967-16f9-4eb5-9988-6d7edcf69ded@o21g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <918e573a-edf9-4e93-8c10-3bda3e0b9d86@j35g2000prb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298695246 30759 80.91.229.12 (26 Feb 2011 04:40:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 04:40:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 26 05:40:42 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PtBxR-0000ay-El for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 05:40:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57455 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PtBxR-00062G-0X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:40:41 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i39g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 116.73.35.230 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1298692897 28874 127.0.0.1 (26 Feb 2011 04:01:37 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 04:01:37 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i39g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=116.73.35.230; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:185330 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:79488 Archived-At: On Feb 25, 11:54=A0pm, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > My view is that the defaults should remain very stable indeed, (but not > totally frozen). =A0At the same time I have an extensive .emacs. Maybe one basic/generic kind of personality/emacsicality would be say for emacs 23 to 'become' emacs 22 or 21 etc. IOW the 'totally frozen' should be an available option. I say this because recently there was a fireball (supernova?) with Mark Crispin getting upset with visual- line-mode changing basic newline behavior. On the one hand the new is generally accepted to be better behavior, on the other it broke old code. Maybe being able to say: $ emacs23 --emacsicality=3Demacs22 ... would be good to have? [I personally would like more progress even at the cost of more breakage a la Xah. Just exploring if a win-win is possible...] Heres a possible list of emacsicalities: emacs22, emacs21 cua dvorak xemacs?