From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Semi-unhelpful error message given when trying to (provide 'CUA-mode) Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 22:18:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <85fyj4bl8p.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20060520.211854.71848142.wl@gnu.org> <85lkswa29b.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <44701B91.60606@swipnet.se> <44715093.4020906@swipnet.se> <4472AB5F.9090305@swipnet.se> <85zmh9ywtc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <44730F23.4010507@student.lu.se> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1148437111 10306 80.91.229.2 (24 May 2006 02:18:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 02:18:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 24 04:18:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FiixB-0006Ej-El for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 May 2006 04:18:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FiixA-0004nY-Pt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 May 2006 22:18:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fiiww-0004mx-QY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 May 2006 22:18:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fiiww-0004ma-9F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 May 2006 22:18:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fiiww-0004mV-2p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 May 2006 22:18:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fij1H-0006Gu-Bh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 May 2006 22:22:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Fiiwt-0006S3-Vo; Tue, 23 May 2006 22:18:12 -0400 Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-reply-to: <44730F23.4010507@student.lu.se> (message from Lennart Borgman on Tue, 23 May 2006 15:33:23 +0200) 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:55168 Archived-At: Is it not better to follow the standard for Gnome and other platforms where it is possible? Does not Alt beeing META clash with these? Where else can Meta be? My keyboard has no other suitable place. The GNOME developers should not have chosen conventions that clash with Emacs.