On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 6:15:56 AM UTC+5:30, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 29Jul2015 18:32, Laura Creighton wrote: > >These control characters are the very basic move characters in emacs. > >People have always been free to remap them if they want them to do > >something else, but waking up in the morning and discovering that you > >cannot move to the front of your current line, to the end ot it, one line > >up and one line down because somebody has changed this ***for everybody*** > >would get me quite upset, too. > > Yeah, I'd be annoyed too. I'm a vi user, but use the emacs mode for shell > command line editing as it is modeless. ^A, ^E, ^P and ^N are really quite > critical. > > >Laura (happy emacs user since 1979) > > Cheers, > Cameron Simpson (happy vi user since 1985) > > English is a living language, but simple illiteracy is no basis for > linguistic evolution. - Dwight MacDonald
That footer says it best: Some stability is expected, also some change. Finding a sweetspot midway is hard and very necessary BTW I think python does a better job -- 2→3 transition than most other long-lived projects. Emacs is too much on the conservative side. Haskell is too much on the 'progress-is-heaven' side. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
