From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:31:41 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87lj6y6y7m.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83lj6zz9o0.fsf@gnu.org> <4C94ED16.8010100@gmail.com> <9DDC30C126BB4F8DBB4BDF7C977457B1@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284878130 32304 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2010 06:35:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:35:30 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 19 08:35:29 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxDUn-0006jE-22 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:35:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37660 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OxDUl-0008JL-RB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:35:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49587 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OxDUY-0008Eu-CQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:35:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxDUT-0008KQ-SG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:35:14 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50588) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxDUT-0008KI-Mu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:35:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxDUP-0006bv-4f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:35:05 +0200 Original-Received: from p508ed0ad.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.142.208.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:35:05 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by p508ed0ad.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:35:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508ed0ad.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+Wu84CCIuiuWo5JGR/LRgglqbzw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:130470 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > "Drew Adams" writes: > >> All new users will NOT have to suffer forever. In fact, NO new users >> will have to suffer forever. New users, like old users, can discover >> options and change their settings if they like. > > If new users sees a tool behaving strangely, they say "how odd", and > then go on to the next tool. What's wrong with that? We are not drug traffickers having anything to gain by getting people hooked. -- David Kastrup