From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Moving kbd to subr.el Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 18:34:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20211004081724.6281.11798@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <874k9jzu7a.fsf@gnus.org> <874k9juy0r.fsf@gnus.org> <87mtnbtimj.fsf@gnus.org> <87wnmd13ny.fsf@gnus.org> <87sfx10xs6.fsf@gnus.org> <87h7dfpjn3.fsf@gnus.org> <31b2f1e94178d73e5f05@heytings.org> <87czo3pgs1.fsf@gnus.org> <31b2f1e9412d60db82df@heytings.org> <87o87moopl.fsf@gnus.org> <19fca5d18b63e6eff5de@heytings.org> <87wnmaiida.fsf@gnus.org> <87zgr6gw9s.fsf@gnus.org> <87r1chhhkh.fsf@gnus.org> <27b660e5a897f955064e@heytings.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34105"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, stefan@marxist.se, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 21 00:42:48 2021 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 1mdKIJ-0008g6-JI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2021 00:42:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51328 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mdKIH-0005Cp-KI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2021 18:42:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42738) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mdKAW-00039w-Rz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2021 18:34:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58070) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mdKAV-0003TV-9T; Wed, 20 Oct 2021 18:34:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mdKAQ-0004l9-MV; Wed, 20 Oct 2021 18:34:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <27b660e5a897f955064e@heytings.org> (message from Gregory Heytings on Tue, 19 Oct 2021 07:48:02 +0000) 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:277474 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. ]]] > Emacs 29 + 2*N: allow only the kbd syntax, display an error otherwise. Indeed, you have demonstrated it would be _possible_ to eliminate the old key binding syntax. But we _should not do that_. The breakage of so many old programs would be terribly harmful, and there is no need for it at all. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)