From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: 23.0.60; M-( and M-) should not be bound in ESC map Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:09:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <003801c89a85$fcd95ad0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> <008d01c89b26$8aacebb0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207959048 11144 80.91.229.12 (12 Apr 2008 00:10:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 12 02:11:21 2008 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 4.50) id 1JkTKy-0005SU-G3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:11:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JkTKK-0006RR-LM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:10:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JkTJe-0005sX-2h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:09:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JkTJc-0005ry-U3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:09:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JkTJc-0005rv-H7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:09:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JkTJc-0000zN-8X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:09:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JkTJc-0002IN-2l; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:09:56 -0400 In-reply-to: <008d01c89b26$8aacebb0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> (drew.adams@oracle.com) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:95001 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:21980 Archived-At: Just because a decision was made long ago does not mean that it is the right decision now or even that it was the right decision then. That is true, but it is also true that if we keep reopening questions decided long ago, we will make our lives very difficult and probably make little progress. We have to leave well enough alone for the old features most of the time, in order to have time to add the new features we know we want.