Re: why does M-w (kill-ring-save) hurt so bad?

Jamie Zawinski <jwz(a)jwz.org&gt; writes: <snip> <snip> <snip> I don't know why anyone should respond to this sort of childish wind-bagging. It seem fitter to ignore it. But I was struck with the rather extreme selfishness and disregard for others that it exhibits. Nobody has earned the right to publicly assault others in this fashion no matter how they have been provoked. The fact is non-backward-compatible changes happen all the time. I recently upgraded my CPU/motherboard. Now I have to get my USB ports working, get a new sound card, and pull out the old CD-ROM that no longer works with the new system. Yesterday I upgraded to a new version of Mozilla and lost my profile information. Oops. My new Christmas lights don't plug into the old Christmas lights. It looks like I'm going to have to get a new calendar next year. This year's version is going to be obsolete. I'm not saying that this change to XEmacs was a good thing. In the ideal world people wouldn't have to stumble across changes like this; they would either find them in the release notes or bugs wouldn't happen in the first place. But since people make mistakes and do things without fully understanding the consequences, the world is less than perfect in this aspect. This is why there exist development releases of software. The most idiotic thing about your response is that there are few people in this world more equipped to deal with this problem in a reasonable fashion than yourself, at least from a technical standpoint. From a social standpoint, well, that's another matter entirely. I suppose that some people never out-grow temper tantrums. Jon -- If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married. -- Deuteronomy 24:5 (NIV)