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From: adamsonj@email.unc.edu (Joel J. Adamson)
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Binding C-a to select all
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:32:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ej6da4s9.fsf@edna.homeunix.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k5g6wzq0.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:21:27 +0900")

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> Xah <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:
>> which include several tips and elisp code to make emacs conform to
>> modern UI standards. Comments welcome.
>
> "Modern" is not a synonym for "good".

Nor is "like every dumb application written by programmers with no
respect for their users" a synonym for "good."  Emacs treats me like I'm
smart enough to use it.

Joel

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-01 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-25  1:55 Binding C-a to select all Davin Pearson
2008-06-25  3:19 ` B. T. Raven
2008-06-25  4:33   ` Davin Pearson
2008-06-25  5:23     ` Jordan Greenberg
2008-06-25  6:02     ` Joost Kremers
2008-06-25  7:52     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-25  7:58       ` Davin Pearson
2008-06-25 18:36 ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-06-25 23:12 ` Xah
2008-06-30 18:21   ` Miles Bader
2008-07-01 17:32     ` Joel J. Adamson [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.13837.1214419304.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-06-26  0:34   ` Xah
2008-06-26  2:58     ` Joel J. Adamson

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