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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: current directory
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:22:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u7iyvqzg3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610190952.48178.help-gnu-emacs@vsbe.com> (message from vb on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:52:48 -0700)

> From: vb <help-gnu-emacs@vsbe.com>
> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:52:48 -0700
> 
> well, this is becoming a philosophical issue, but I'll comment on it anyways: 
> as soon as somebody gets to decide what is good for other people, the other 
> people are in trouble.

Not unless that decision is tested by 20 years of user satisfaction.

> Again, I am all for emacs doing whatever whoever thinks is good. But let those 
> who feel otherwise do what they want - otherwise this is like a communist 
> society: driving people to their happiness with an iron fist.

You are free to modify Emacs to your liking: it's infinitely
customizable, and if that isn't enough, the sources are freely
available to be hacked as you wish.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-20  6:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.83.1161235004.2130.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-19 16:01 ` current directory Fang lun gang
2006-10-19 16:52   ` vb
2006-10-20  6:22     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found]   ` <mailman.100.1161276782.2130.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-19 19:22     ` rgb
2006-10-19 21:00       ` vb
2006-10-21 18:38     ` don provan
2006-10-23 17:24       ` vb
2006-10-23 19:17         ` John Sullivan
2006-10-23 19:57         ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-23 20:36           ` vb
2006-10-23 21:47             ` Dieter Wilhelm
2006-10-24  4:26               ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-24  5:24                 ` Dieter Wilhelm
     [not found]           ` <mailman.178.1161635783.27805.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-23 21:52             ` Maarten Bergvelt
2006-10-23 20:32         ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-10-23 20:59           ` vb
     [not found]       ` <mailman.166.1161624291.27805.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-23 17:48         ` David Kastrup
2006-10-23 20:03           ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-23 18:33         ` Colin S. Miller
2006-10-23 18:58           ` vb
     [not found]           ` <mailman.169.1161629903.27805.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-23 19:46             ` Peter Boettcher
     [not found] <mailman.74.1161208352.2130.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-20 16:46 ` Sam Peterson
2006-10-19  5:16 help-gnu-emacs
2006-10-20  5:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-18 21:52 help-gnu-emacs
2006-10-18 22:32 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-10-18 23:12   ` vb
2006-10-19  4:25     ` Eli Zaretskii

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