From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rustom Mody Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Fire defun by typing keyword Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 18:27:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <62b2fa06-e106-44b9-9e3d-41b2ab01ef84@googlegroups.com> References: <871u33mqj0.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87zjpjmuhj.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87k3gmbhjk.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87d2mdma8f.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <1b9c3e40-fcbf-4759-a5c7-e4494ac5858e@googlegroups.com> <50960452-63dc-4283-8ab3-b505156200ae@googlegroups.com> <87habornym.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383877818 1609 80.91.229.3 (8 Nov 2013 02:30:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 02:30:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 08 03:30:24 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vebq3-0005JD-QG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Nov 2013 03:30:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43566 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vebpz-0007GJ-Id for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 21:30:19 -0500 X-Received: by 10.66.172.79 with SMTP id ba15mr4498953pac.26.1383877664417; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 18:27:44 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.2.74 with SMTP id 10mr7233igs.15.1383877664266; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 18:27:44 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!z6no4651087pbz.1!news-out.google.com!9ni16412qaf.0!nntp.google.com!o2no24915437qas.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <87habornym.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.4.10; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.4.10 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 02:27:44 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202127 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94398 Archived-At: On Friday, November 8, 2013 1:19:44 AM UTC+5:30, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Rustom Mody writes: > > (Having never used a mac) > Isn't there a rule against this kind of shameless > boasting? :) > Soon, perhaps there wont be X on Linux boxes either. I > heard Ubuntu is working on their own window system, and > Kubuntu (which uses KDE instead of GNOME) is switching > to Wayland. > I hope Debian sticks with X. If they don't, I'm forking > the distro into Xebian, while also rewriting xterm, > urxvt, xclip, etc., into xebian-terminal, > xebian-screenshot, and so on. Not because there is > anything wrong with those applications, but I have to do > it anyway to enforce consistent "look and feel". You > better believe it! Yeah I am (one of the many) fed up with gnome trying to look-n-feel like a cheap button phone without the buttons. Been using xfce on my debian box and whatever ubuntu gives there -- not satisfactory... As I wrote in http://blog.languager.org/2011/02/cs-education-is-fat-and-weak-2.html all desktops are converging to mac/windows and since windows-8 is more half-assed than ever, all the other players are scrambling to 'keep-up'!