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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: cesar.crusius@gmail.com, jhanschoo@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New Package: greek-polytonic.el
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 20:31:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1feUx9-0000mP-10@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83o9f9acsf.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 14 Jul 2018 21:32:32 +0300)

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  > I was talking about what's in the buffer.  I think that if the user
  > types a sequence of characters, Emacs should generally put those
  > characters unaltered in the buffer.

This is good for several reasons:

* It makes C-b and C-f do the natural thing.

* It makes search do the natural thing.
-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)





  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-15  0:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-14  9:29 [ELPA] New Package: greek-polytonic.el Johannes Choo
2018-07-14 11:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-14 17:11   ` Cesar Crusius
2018-07-14 18:32     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-15  0:31       ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2018-07-15  1:37       ` Cesar Crusius
2018-07-16 15:57         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-16 16:23           ` Cesar Crusius
2018-08-08 13:12             ` Johannes Choo

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