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[–] permetz@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Rob Pike, one of the gods of UNIX, wrote a wonderful paper about why the behavior Emacs exhibits is better, and why wanting the other behavior produces trouble.

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix2000/general/full_papers/pikelex/pikelex_html/

[–] unixbhaskar@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Ah, thanks for pointing out that.