From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete] Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 06:12:13 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <87litcvtu2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <20111003093334.0bf5d988@kuru.homelinux.net> <4E89B613.9060305@mousecar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1332966778 330 80.91.229.3 (28 Mar 2012 20:32:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:32:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 28 22:32:58 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SCzY9-0000Y8-6k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:32:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50496 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCzY8-0001bK-HI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:32:56 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!db5g2000vbb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 116.74.131.73 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1317733933 4696 127.0.0.1 (4 Oct 2011 13:12:13 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 13:12:13 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: db5g2000vbb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=116.74.131.73; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUALESNKRC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110920 Firefox/3.6.23,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:189132 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84149 Archived-At: On Oct 3, 9:22=A0pm, Jeremiah Dodds wrote: > > This is sort of pointless. AFAICT, keeping the behavior isn't any less > an "appeal to fashion", > it's just an appeal to the current emacs fashion, other than in the > parts of the thread that were > actually bringing up *reasons* for keeping it around or changing it > that weren't just > emotional claptrap. Ive been feeling a bit warm of late jogging in my powdered wig. And my cravat and sword keep getting stuck in elevator doors. Thanks for drawing my attention to the fact that I may be dressing funny. [Should have known from the looks I keep getting...]