From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Miles Bader'" <miles@gnu.org>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: display-buffer cleverness - how to tame?
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 08:49:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000001c9cccf$dc734c10$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ws8wkizo.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
> > It's a joke, right? Emacs adding DWIM now means that if
> > you want the simple, straightforward behavior of old you
> > need to write it yourself?
>
> If almost nobody actually does, then that's not a problem, right?
That's sorry logic. The fact (unproven, BTW) that few people will actually go to
that trouble is no proof that almost nobody would appreciate such a result.
The fact that few people actually build an energy-efficient car themselves from
scratch is hardly proof that no one would appreciate such a car.
If the new `display-buffer' approach is so complex that just describing a simple
way to get back the old behavior is too difficult (even for the implementor!),
then, yes, I think we have a problem.
Introduce cleverness, if you must, but please give users a simple way to return
to the simple. "Write your own Emacs, if you don't like the new, improved
version" is one, knee-jerk response. It's not a very good response, IMO.
By a simple way, I mean, for example, just customizing a user option or two -
not implementing complex functions. It is merely punting to provide just a
function-valued option `do-it-yourself'. When DWIM -> DYI, something is amiss.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-04 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-04 7:41 display-buffer cleverness - how to tame? Drew Adams
2009-05-04 8:38 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-04 14:39 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-04 15:03 ` Miles Bader
2009-05-04 15:49 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-05-04 18:58 ` Samuel Bronson
2009-05-05 2:50 ` Miles Bader
2009-05-04 16:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-05-04 16:41 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-04 17:13 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-05 7:02 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-05 14:18 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-05 16:33 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-05 16:58 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-05 18:55 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-05 20:20 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-06 16:21 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-06 17:54 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-07 9:37 ` martin rudalics
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