From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs discussed on US NPR Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 22:47:17 +0100 Message-ID: <877frss7bu.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> References: <5929621e-367b-4781-97dd-db5f439c9152@default> <87iobcs96r.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <1432848455.17513.64.camel@mad-scientist.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1432849681 21368 80.91.229.3 (28 May 2015 21:48:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 21:48:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier To: Paul Smith Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 28 23:47:47 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yy5eV-0001XA-GQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 May 2015 23:47:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60859 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yy5eV-0000Eq-1a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 May 2015 17:47:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51382) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yy5eM-0000Cv-5O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2015 17:47:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yy5eI-0000Su-3J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2015 17:47:38 -0400 Original-Received: from cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.22]:53909) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yy5eH-0000Sb-Tl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2015 17:47:34 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129] helo=smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk) by cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Yy5eG-00018w-G6; Thu, 28 May 2015 22:47:33 +0100 Original-Received: from cpc7-benw10-2-0-cust228.16-2.cable.virginm.net ([77.98.254.229] helo=localhost) by smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Yy5eD-00041r-Ap; Thu, 28 May 2015 22:47:32 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1432848455.17513.64.camel@mad-scientist.net> (Paul Smith's message of "Thu, 28 May 2015 17:27:35 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.22 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:104648 Archived-At: Paul Smith writes: > 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. So I found out when I finally upgraded. > What keybindings are we talking about? I was going to say "I have no idea, it was a while back" but I found this: http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/emacs-18-19.html I do have vague memories of the RMAIL "e" rebinding that it mentions; scary. I shall return to reminiscing about the good old days in private, don't mind me. Phil