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

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: BEN IS A BAGBITING COCKSUCKER. When are you fucktards going to learn to post big blinking lights around these non-backward-compatible changes you make with every release, instead of leaving them scattered around like a fucking MINEFIELD for me to discover over the course of the next six months every time I upgrade? Do you think your users *enjoy* spending their time trying to figure out how do do (setq just-behave-like-the-n-minus-one-version-did t) all the time? This is *progress*? Jesus fucking christ on a rubber fucking pogo stick. You guessed right, setting it to nil makes Emacs stop acting like it's running on a 9600 baud modem. I am no longer awash in nostalgia for the late eighties. Thank you, Stephen, and fuck you very much, Ben. By the way, (and I say this in the sense of "totally sure that I'm right and totally uninterested in hearing about any conflicting opinions, because I've heard them already, so if you want to discuss it, please just leave me out of it"), owning the selection when copying to the kill ring is completely, utterly, brain-damagingly wrong, because the kill ring is a *ring* and the clipboard (and primary selection) are quite obviously *not rings*, as I explained in depth in 1997: http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=&as_umsgid=%3C3373165D.511EF610＠... -- Jamie Zawinski jwz(a)jwz.org http://www.jwz.org/ jwz(a)dnalounge.com http://www.dnalounge.com/