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Re: line-move-visual
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Mark Crispin |
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Re: line-move-visual |
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Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:13:38 -0000 |
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On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Wojciech Meyer posted:
Well it is certainly possible, one can use mailing list and the NEWS
file, which was suggested before.
Please read the first chapter of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to
understand the flaw in that reasoning.
This sort of thing happened in the past as well. The difference was
that there was accountability in the past that is absent today.
What sort of acountability, I think unhappy `customers' is enough
punishment.
Apparently not, if the "customers" are told that it's their fault for not
being on the development list.
What kind of Emacs users are they? Isn't possible to place on every
machine a stub containing: (setq line-move-visual nil).
There include people who never use emacs, except to follow the procedure
that I outline (which is literally a cookbook "do these steps exactly").
I have no control or access to the machines in question.
Perhaps I should have written a program to begin with. But it was so much
simpler to leverage upon emacs back in the days when emacs had a reliable
interface. Now that it no longer does, I'm now forced to write the
program.
There is nothing wrong in being young and creative, that makes often
things better. Young people often do care more about things then Senior
Architects, they are also more flexible for changes.
Yes, but they lack the wisdom and experience of their elders. This in
turn leads them to address complex problems with simple solutions that
backfire (sometimes disastrously).
The reason why this setting wasn't kept by default is to fix the
fundamental problem,
Yeah, right. The "fundamental problem" that CTRL/A, CTRL/E, CTRL/N,
CTRL/P, etc. moved to predictable places in the file no matter what the
screen width, and thus could be relied upon for a cookbook procedure.
We can't have predictability and reliability. We have to do pretty-pretty
to be just like Word, and destroy the one attribute that made emacs
superior to other choices.
Bletch.
This wouldn't have been a problem had the arrow keys been changed to the
new semantics and CTRL-A/E/N/P been left alone. The new semantics are
even arguably right for arrow keys (although I would go further and say
that they should also treat tabs as the equivalent number of spaces). It
isn't as if we're still in the 1970s and have keyboards without arrow
keys.
-- Mark --
http://panda.com/mrc
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Re: line-move-visual, (continued)
- Re: line-move-visual, Tim X, 2010/12/08
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- Re: line-move-visual, Joseph Brenner, 2010/12/08
- Re: line-move-visual, Helmut Eller, 2010/12/08
- Re: line-move-visual, David Kastrup, 2010/12/08
- Re: line-move-visual, Joseph Brenner, 2010/12/08
- Re: line-move-visual, w_a_x_man, 2010/12/08
- Re: line-move-visual, Wojciech Meyer, 2010/12/09
- Re: line-move-visual,
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- Re: line-move-visual, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/12/08
- Re: line-move-visual, Jim Diamond, 2010/12/08
- Re: line-move-visual, Uday S Reddy, 2010/12/08
- Re: line-move-visual, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/12/08
- Re: line-move-visual, Uday S Reddy, 2010/12/08
- Re: line-move-visual, Tim X, 2010/12/08
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