From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Introducing thread-safe Tramp Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2018 21:20:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8736wa9c5s.fsf@gmx.de> <87wotkn6do.fsf@gmx.de> > <874lgn8x6l.fsf@gmx.de> > <87sh44pisz.fsf@gmx.de> <87a7qbitc7.fsf@gmx.de>> <878t5tdsfc.fsf@gmx.de>> <83wotcpzub.fsf@gnu.org> <87bmaiuwml.fsf@gmx.de> <877el6uwio.fsf@gmx.de>> <7c28f9d8-e2bb-4778-ab92-92707f12718f@default>> <837el6t8r3.fsf@gnu.org>> <87sh3tunx4.fsf@gmx.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1533518380 4502 195.159.176.226 (6 Aug 2018 01:19:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 01:19:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, fgunbin@fastmail.fm, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 06 03:19:36 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fmUBM-00013u-0x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2018 03:19:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60254 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fmUDS-0005kD-HP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2018 21:21:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60267) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fmUCg-0005ib-GB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2018 21:20:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fmUCf-0003Wm-NN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2018 21:20:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42912) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fmUCV-0003Nk-Tw; Sun, 05 Aug 2018 21:20:47 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fmUCV-0008S0-4p; Sun, 05 Aug 2018 21:20:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87sh3tunx4.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Sun, 05 Aug 2018 12:07:35 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228201 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > How would you name "C-x RET c" or "C-x &" then? I don't know of a term > which describes that behavior. "Prefix argument" is clearly wrong. We're better off with no special name for this unusual practice, than using a misleading name for it. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)