From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: bind me a/k/a leadership in the key binding dept. Date: 06 Jul 2002 19:42:21 +0900 Organization: Global Online Japan Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <8765ztb0j6.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> References: <87y9cuzgzt.fsf@jidanni.org> <20020702103800.GA179@xyz> <87sn311iqf.fsf@jidanni.org> <20020703121653.GA179@xyz> <200207041824.g64IOXw06480@aztec.santafe.edu> <20020704200235.GA8913@xyz> <200207052205.g65M5tS08539@aztec.santafe.edu> <873cux8fxv.fsf_-_@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026132734 5225 127.0.0.1 (8 Jul 2002 12:52:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:52:14 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17RXzy-0001MA-00 for ; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 14:52:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17RY0d-0004Wo-00; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 08:52:55 -0400 Original-Received: from delysid.gnu.org ([158.121.106.20]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17RXMS-000255-00; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 08:11:24 -0400 Original-Received: from ashd1-1.relay.mail.uu.net ([199.171.54.245]) by delysid.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #2) id 17Qn1f-00026m-00 for ; Sat, 06 Jul 2002 06:42:51 -0400 Original-Received: from nnrp.gol.com by mr0.ash.ops.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: nnrp.gol.com [203.216.7.70]) id QQmwic21795 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 10:42:33 GMT Original-Received: from news by nnrp.gol.com with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17Qn1C-0006Jd-00 for ; Sat, 06 Jul 2002 19:42:22 +0900 Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: tc-2-162.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp Original-X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1025952141 24132 203.216.25.162 (6 Jul 2002 10:42:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 10:42:21 +0000 (UTC) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:2514 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:2514 jidanni@dman.ddts.net (Dan Jacobson) writes: > Anyways, say, you provide functions with standard names, no? You > don't just do "lambda" and let the masses "chose their favorite name > as the flower blows", no? Well, how about the same leadership in the > key binding dept. It's much simpler to do for function names, because the namespace is much, _much_, larger (well, the _practical_ namespace, anyway; you could always think of `M-x name' as a binding...). -Miles -- `There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'