From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A more modest proposal Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:00:28 +0900 Message-ID: References: <4C3B6A8A.80105@gmx.de> <87wrt0e81n.fsf@telefonica.net> <62E9699C07054418AB66F9C5FCB54E5C@us.oracle.com> <87sk3oe3la.fsf@telefonica.net> <1154D96E7D2F401D849266F359E44BB9@us.oracle.com> <87ocecdzou.fsf@telefonica.net> <2256C17F740A425884AD551DE7758056@us.oracle.com> <87fwzodqqm.fsf@telefonica.net> <5138CDF30B2D4B778F948015614DA7BC@us.oracle.com> <87iq4ijtdy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87bpa7uu1e.fsf@kanis.fr> <877hkv2hco.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87iq4e593w.fsf@kanis.fr> <87lj9ayp2f.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C493433.4010709@censorshipresearch.org> <877hkm8tz9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1279875653 9441 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2010 09:00:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:00:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 23 11:00:52 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OcE7e-0005xl-9s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:00:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52225 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OcE7b-0007Ww-Ev for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:00:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57289 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OcE7Q-0007Vn-4b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:00:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OcE7P-0001yp-0a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:00:35 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:44319) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OcE7M-0001xx-Gg; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:00:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate3.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.192]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id o6N90UNg028487; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:00:30 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from root@localhost) by mailgate3.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) id o6N90TG26538; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:00:29 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.54]) by vgate01.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W-MAILSV-NEC) with ESMTP id o6N90T415943; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:00:29 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay61.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.40] [10.29.19.40]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:00:29 +0900 Original-Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.112.180] [10.114.112.180]) by relay61.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:00:29 +0900 Original-Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 08D2A52E221; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:00:28 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <877hkm8tz9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:47:54 +0200") Original-Lines: 12 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:127684 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > Arguably similar expectations would hold for C-s, C-v, C-q, C-u, so I am > not sure that this argument should prevail, even though C-z has a > slightly different quality, being slightly useful as a working panic > exit for the completely new user. Not to mention "C-c"...! -Miles -- ((lambda (x) (list x x)) (lambda (x) (list x x)))