From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@md5i.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: C-x SPC : rectangle-mark-mode or gud-break?
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 11:34:41 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gb0p7we.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36dd5ae9-42d5-44c2-80e0-adb448d51823@default>
Drew Adams writes:
> > It's had a lot of time for people to get used to it.
>
> And?
History matters, Drew. AFAIK you don't prefer the current binding to
a rectangle function, but want the key sequence left for future use.
"Reserved for future use" is not really on the table here, given a
twenty-year history for one of the bindings. Not everybody is going
to upgrade to the latest and greatest Emacs (eg, about 50% each of two
different corporate samples I've seen, both over 200 users, used
Emacsen released more than 5 years before the dates of the surveys),
but they do sometimes share others' Emacsen.
At least in my experience debugging sessions are more likely to end up
"hands on" than coding sessions; this is a binding that matters.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-20 2:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-19 19:48 C-x SPC : rectangle-mark-mode or gud-break? Michael Welsh Duggan
2013-12-19 21:41 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-20 0:12 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2013-12-20 1:56 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-20 2:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2013-12-20 3:35 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-20 5:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-15 18:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-15 18:46 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2014-01-15 23:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-16 0:39 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2014-01-16 4:14 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <CAM9Zgm0X=3PQYQvc6Pg6iDgRRKRs1bQ9wPU=gOP7xF9KdX40-w@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <jwv61pkrri0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2014-01-16 13:47 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-01-17 12:45 ` Bastien
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