From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: line-move-visual Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:33:59 +0000 (UTC) Organization: muc.de e.V. Message-ID: References: <87d3vx5cku.fsf@gmail.com> <87bpbcrdk5.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291835957 1028 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 19:19:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 19:19:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 20:19:13 2010 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 1PQPXk-0005X1-LE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:19:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52786 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQPXj-000474-TD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:19:11 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!news-peer.in.tum.de!news.muc.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs,comp.lang.lisp Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.muc.de Original-X-Trace: colin2.muc.de 1276702439 74219 2001:608:1000::2 (16 Jun 2010 15:33:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news-admin@muc.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:33:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-RELEASE (i386)) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179014 comp.emacs:100072 comp.lang.lisp:289258 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:75872 Archived-At: In comp.emacs Uday S Reddy wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>> You can set your own defaults in your .emacs to get the behaviour you >>> like and so can all the other people. >> This garbage again. When we're talking only about the best settings >> for defaults, going on about .emacs is stupid. > Interesting. When I raised the issue of defaults in the developers > list, I was advised by Stefan to set my own default. Apparently, he > didn't think it was stupid to do so. Not whilst addressing somebody wearing a user's hat. It's a stupid distraction for the maintainers whilst pondering defaults. > When I said this morning that you had fallen silent, my meaning was > that you did not provide an answer. Calling the question "silly" or > "stupid" does not amount to an answer, does it? It can do. There are questions which can be used to derail a discussion, should the questioner wish this. I have a suspicion this is one of your aims here. If you're not trolling, then please accept my apologies and carefully review your posts to see where that impression came from. > Why don't you leave it to Stefan to speak for himself? I am sure that > Stefan and I are able to have a perfectly normal, professional > conversation without your help. Yet more snide remarks, yes? I'm not going to rise to it this time. > Cheers, > Uday -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).