From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Move etc/future-bug into etc/JOKES ?? Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:46:19 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172821673 31835 80.91.229.12 (2 Mar 2007 07:47:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 07:47:53 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 02 08:47:48 2007 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 4.50) id 1HN2UE-0002Mz-8m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:47:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HN2UD-0000ox-T6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:47:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HN2TS-0000J1-45 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:46:42 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HN2TR-0000IO-2f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:46:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HN2TQ-0000IA-VB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:46:41 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HN2TQ-0007fP-B1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:46:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HN2TC-0005RM-G7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:46:26 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.156.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:46:26 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:46:26 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:67200 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >>> C-h C-j => Display jokes (JOKES + future-bug + DEVEL.HUMOR) > ... >> [I don't care much about the jokes (C-h C-j), >> so I can leave that out if people dislike it]. > > I dislike it. `C-h' should be reserved for Emacs help. Opening a buffer of > jokes or haikus or Zippy quotes or stock quotes or a calendar or ... is not > the same as providing help about Emacs. > > Over time, we have needed more and more C-h bindings for real help, and that > is likely to continue. Let's reserve C-h for user help. We can put the commands to view the various etc/* files on the Super-e or Hyper-e prefix key. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA