From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Zimmerman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "like other editors" Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:04:16 -0700 Message-ID: <871uus9j9b.fsf@foolinux.dyndns.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317787475 16864 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2011 04:04:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 04:04:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 05 06:04:31 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBIid-0007dh-1m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 06:04:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36900 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBIic-0001J5-9F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:04:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50639) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBIiX-0001Ii-8O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:04:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBIiW-0000Y4-Eq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:04:25 -0400 Original-Received: from li225-69.members.linode.com ([173.255.215.69]:59782 helo=ahiker.homeip.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBIiW-0000Xp-Ao for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:04:24 -0400 Original-Received: from adsl-75-30-78-201.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net ([75.30.78.201] helo=matica) by ahiker.homeip.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RBIiV-0001Xx-2Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:04:23 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Rustom Mody's message of "Wed, 5 Oct 2011 09:16:19 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 173.255.215.69 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:82476 Archived-At: 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). -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court.