From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre Date: Sun, 31 May 2020 03:07:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <70bb51fd-447d-928c-4d69-1c9673a44471@online.de> <871rnnvmdx.fsf@red-bean.com> <87pnb7sira.fsf@red-bean.com> <87lflcg0k9.fsf@red-bean.com> <0f1cd319-fa8c-4453-b909-fdd36f337906@default> <87zh9scdf8.fsf@warpmail.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="96138"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: andreas.roehler@online.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, kfogel@red-bean.com, excalamus@tutanota.com, philip@warpmail.net, drew.adams@oracle.com To: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 31 09:07:48 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jfI4R-000Ow3-QG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 31 May 2020 09:07:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38444 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jfI4Q-0008Pa-T4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 31 May 2020 03:07:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36500) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jfI3z-0007zS-89 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 May 2020 03:07:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51784) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jfI3x-00034o-3R; Sun, 31 May 2020 03:07:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jfI3u-00024L-SZ; Sun, 31 May 2020 03:07:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: (ams@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:251668 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. ]]] > I suspect there is no deep meaning behind it, the BEL was common way > back then to mean abort, or alert. TECO and DDT both used C-g for > abort, Are you confident of that? I don't remember, but if your memory is clear, that is probably the reason. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)