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

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.