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: C-x C-v considered harmful Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:05:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <19020.2798.523236.406366@rgr.rgrjr.com><72597301DECF498C8943373F597732A6@us.oracle.com><19021.23100.86775.844823@rgr.rgrjr.com><19022.27409.779079.636945@rgr.rgrjr.com> <4B176CFD1B19450FAE6B14DC326DC48D@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 1246893087 8274 80.91.229.12 (6 Jul 2009 15:11:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:11:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rogers-emacs@rgrjr.dyndns.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 06 17:11:20 2009 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 1MNpqg-0001jP-Ef for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:11:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46516 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MNpqf-0007K2-SZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:11:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MNpkn-0004Ok-0V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:05:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MNpki-0004KL-7Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:05:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38225 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MNpki-0004KG-3W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:05:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:52068) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MNpkh-0000UR-KQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:05:07 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MNpkg-0005JK-LG; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:05:06 -0400 In-reply-to: <4B176CFD1B19450FAE6B14DC326DC48D@us.oracle.com> (drew.adams@oracle.com) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:112086 Archived-At: > It is somewhat dangerous _because_ it has a key binding. No, it was claimed that the command's behavior itself is dangerous, which means regardless of how it is called. Practically speaking, it is only dangerous because of the key binding. If people had to run it with M-x, they would not type it by habit, so it would not cause a problem.