From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs learning curve Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 04:59:24 +0200 Message-ID: References: <10954D02-E217-49F3-8824-757DA34074AB@gmail.com> <83zkxzakr0.fsf@gnu.org> <83pqyva8ms.fsf@gnu.org> <878w4mrtdd.fsf@roquesor.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281063599 17014 80.91.229.12 (6 Aug 2010 02:59:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 02:59:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Barry Fishman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 06 04:59:58 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 1OhDA3-0003nW-Bf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:59:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33205 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhDA2-0006Rd-OB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:59:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55794 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhD9v-0006QB-5a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:59:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhD9u-0007rU-4j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:59:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.216.41]:42473) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhD9t-0007rP-Vu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:59:46 -0400 Original-Received: by qwk4 with SMTP id 4so5292210qwk.0 for ; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:59:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=tnFguV6FAwNqm7j3ZWEuhMj8J44D8XIp7cpmU2a7ggw=; b=Lma4v7qTzH2JMyxzQDCUFmCesAgo8p2FXjh7GTTnD11DOXGxTnnw13EHa5DwKF+vED HBtcyx+udeYXalsyAYQHrDzIBwEK20y4di1kbquZwoBZU24uhEiXUgVXY6GnV5vyfJLs cKRLlBZizjPcRgwqFIDL1W21uj+ePxnFqzx7Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=on2wo14aKkThwgTmq/cvbVyotIXLh4gdlN9+7be8PA87VvDM5KKGqOgnK7LzNH/NiR JX19fWg4zo5XOZfy6Y0b8g8atj08SMdms5Ebi8bK8S4hSputRIH52g/0dtEMbLFcBhWy HnkHgv3sHVT3U34I4iedpKYwhWZ/AN79POgao= Original-Received: by 10.229.1.203 with SMTP id 11mr4075433qcg.238.1281063585237; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:59:45 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.229.9.84 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Aug 2010 19:59:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:128345 Archived-At: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Barry Fishman wrote= : > > Since I started using Emacs I have seen many window systems come and > go. =C2=A0What people call "Modern" window interfaces are just that, the > currently popular window system behavior soon to be replaced by > something else. Is not this rather one of the problems with free software? I think most users would like a stable window system standard interface in this regard.