From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Welsh Duggan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 50, Issue 7 Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:33:06 -0500 Message-ID: <8764bns96l.fsf@cs.cmu.edu> References: <459BB893.9010106@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167885215 4812 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2007 04:33:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 04:33:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 04 05:33:33 2007 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 4.50) id 1H2KIE-0008KO-FZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:33:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2KID-0000cy-RQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:33:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2KI3-0000cc-QZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:33:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2KI2-0000bp-3C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:33:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2KI1-0000bl-RG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:33:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [205.201.10.244] (helo=maru) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H2KHy-0005QF-PO; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:33:15 -0500 Original-Received: from md5i by maru with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H2KHr-0003Rz-3J; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:33:07 -0500 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed\, 03 Jan 2007 21\:31\:38 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) 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:64736 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > I suggest that at least the above sentence must be removed, as it > incorrectly gives the designers of Windows credit for the CUA standard. > > Who did design that specification? >>From Wikipedia: Common User Access (CUA) is a set of guidelines for the user interface to personal computer operating systems and computer programs, developed by IBM and first published in 1987 as part of their Systems Application Architecture. Used originally in the OS/2 and Microsoft Windows operating systems, parts of the CUA standard are now implemented in programs for other operating systems, including variants of Unix. Java AWT and Swing use it as well. CUA did draw inspiration from Apple's Himan Interface Guidelines. Interestingly enough. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_User_Access -- Michael Welsh Duggan (md5i@cs.cmu.edu)