From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: File menu changes (suggestions) Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:36:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <17lib155doplm3ia2aerfis81rr33mei63@4ax.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119594297 28962 80.91.229.2 (24 Jun 2005 06:24:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 06:24:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 24 08:24:49 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlhcA-0007wr-Oy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:24:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dlhj9-0002ei-5a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:31:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DlhG6-0000Ye-3M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:01:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DlhG1-0000Vm-87 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:01:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlhG0-00005x-5a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:01:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dlgvu-00052r-IV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:40:54 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DlgrO-0001UR-QB; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:36:14 -0400 Original-To: "John S. Yates, Jr." In-reply-to: (john@yates-sheets.org) 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:39403 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39403 Rather than argue about which common CUA name most closely matches some Emacs function that we feel we need to expose, a way to truly proper matches would be to think about how we might modify Emacs -- which we boast to ourselves is so infinitely malleable -- so that it might present truly CUA-like behavior. I agree with Miles about this.