From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday S Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Key bindings proposal Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 23:19:43 +0100 Message-ID: <19544.38399.234000.739832@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280874022 8142 80.91.229.12 (3 Aug 2010 22:20:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 22:20:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: MON KEY Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 04 00:20:19 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1OgPqI-00028Z-FR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:20:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34827 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OgPqH-0006eA-9d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:20:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36821 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OgPqB-0006cs-Dx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:20:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OgPq8-0007gY-CZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:20:05 -0400 Original-Received: from sun61.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.128.150]:43397) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OgPq8-0007gL-7J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:20:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [147.188.128.127] (helo=bham.ac.uk) by sun61.bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1OgPq6-0005vS-NC; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:20:02 +0100 Original-Received: from mx1.cs.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.192.53]) by bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OgPq6-00005O-Cy; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:20:02 +0100 Original-Received: from gromit.cs.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.193.16] helo=MARUTI.cs.bham.ac.uk) by mx1.cs.bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1OgPq7-0002rJ-Cl; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:20:03 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.1.92a under 23.2.1 [EmacsW32 Version 1.58 2010-08-02] (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:128207 Archived-At: MON KEY writes: > As a relevantly recent adoptee of Emacs (circa Winter 2007) I'm > compelled to respond. > > What you say in the above two sentences is true of my experience > coming to Emacs. > > The rest of what you say below is well off the mark w/re my experience. Thank you for sharing your experience with us. You are obviously the kind of model new user that we would all love to have! But, I am not sure how much you can generalize from your own example. The narrative I gave was based on observing large groups of students over several years as a University Professor. If you have knowledge of representative samples of users and their behavior was different from what I narrated, then please by all means counter me. Cheers, Uday