From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "like other editors"
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:04:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871uus9j9b.fsf@foolinux.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ+TeocGoa7SUB_WqSsreGTWb3xHBf1+tqgG_3MnS22sWbZMYA@mail.gmail.com> (Rustom Mody's message of "Wed, 5 Oct 2011 09:16:19 +0530")
Rustom> Have: Old users can stay with some version (say emacs 22) and
Rustom> stick there for as long as they like
No. If that were really the only way of "having", the kind of change
being proposed would be unacceptable.
It is OK if there is a compatibility mode which does not conflict with
new features (as there seems to be in this case, though nobody has yet
confirmed it for sure here).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-05 4:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-05 3:46 "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete], Rustom Mody
2011-10-05 4:04 ` Ian Zimmerman [this message]
2011-10-05 4:35 ` Le Wang
2011-10-05 5:05 ` Rustom Mody
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2011-10-12 8:04 ""like other editors" [" Rustom Mody
2011-09-26 3:57 Emacs pretest 24.0.90 Chong Yidong
2011-09-30 3:42 ` Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete Richard Stallman
2011-10-03 7:33 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-10-03 13:18 ` "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete] ken
2011-10-03 13:41 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-10-03 15:17 ` ken
2011-10-03 16:02 ` "like other editors" [ Richard Riley
2011-10-03 20:39 ` ken
2011-10-03 16:01 ` Richard Riley
2011-10-03 16:00 ` Richard Riley
2011-10-03 17:45 ` Ian Zimmerman
2011-10-03 19:27 ` Rasmus
2011-10-03 21:30 ` ken
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