Re: Emacs discussed on US NPR

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.3870.1432848476.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 22:07 +0100, Phillip Lord wrote:
> > I remember a friend of mine complaining about this. A new release of
> > Emacs, now half the keybindings will have changed. Never having seen a
> > new release of Emacs, I stuck with the old version for quite a while.
> 
> I think this is an overstatement: the keys I use 99% of the time every
> day haven't changed since I started using Emacs, which was a REALLY long
> time ago.  What keybindings are we talking about?

It doesn't matter if only a few keybindings have changed, if they happen 
to include something that his friend used frequently. To him, it seems 
like a major change.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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