Re: line-move-visual

[Mark Crispin]

On Sat, 5 Jun 2010, Thad Floryan posted:
> I have. It required hardware from DEC to run it (PDP-10, DEC-20).
> I still have a tape of the sources, executables and docs of the
> EMACS version 150 but no way to (conveniently) read the tape.

It went up to version 165 or so.  You can get a runnable TOPS-20 system 
under a virtual PDP-10 with EMACS 165 from:

        http://panda.trailing-edge.com/

> I have some version of GNU Emacs on every one of the 40+ systems
> here and they all operate essentially identically.

I go even further, and have some program called "emacs" (not necessarily 
GNU emacs) on about the same number of machines.  This includes some 
embedded devices.  They all have that property!  It's a valuable property.

I daresay that RMS would not recognize some of these "emacs" programs as 
being emacs; some are very basic programs.  But, by golly, if you stick to 
the basic functional set of command keys they all work the same.

> I understand
> and agree with Mark Crispin's comments about line-move-visual
> and the idiocy of changing the behavior of fundamental keystrokes.

Thank you.

-- Mark --

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