Re: Emacs discussed on US NPR

[Chris Van Dusen <cavandusen@gmail.com>]

On May 28, 2015, at 7:16 PM, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> In article <mailman.3870.1432848476.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
> Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 22:07 +0100, Phillip Lord wrote:
>>> I remember a friend of mine complaining about this. A new release of
>>> Emacs, now half the keybindings will have changed. Never having seen a
>>> new release of Emacs, I stuck with the old version for quite a while.
>> 
>> I think this is an overstatement: the keys I use 99% of the time every
>> day haven't changed since I started using Emacs, which was a REALLY long
>> time ago.  What keybindings are we talking about?
> 
> It doesn't matter if only a few keybindings have changed, if they happen 
> to include something that his friend used frequently. To him, it seems 
> like a major change.
> 

e.g.  http://xkcd.com/1172/ <http://xkcd.com/1172/>


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> Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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Chris.