From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs? Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 13:19:25 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030530131721.81DB.JMBARRANQUERO@laley.wke.es> References: <3ED6FFAA.3040004@math.ku.dk> <8765nsk9nd.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054294648 11785 80.91.224.249 (30 May 2003 11:37:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 11:37:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri May 30 13:37:26 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19LiCM-00033o-00 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 13:37:26 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19LiRU-0003fM-00 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 13:53:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Li8P-0005x9-EW for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 30 May 2003 07:33:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19Lhv4-0002AQ-Dq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2003 07:19:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19Lhug-0001y6-Ie for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2003 07:19:11 -0400 Original-Received: from laley-actualidad.es ([195.53.61.17] helo=haya.laley.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19LhtT-0001TK-HA; Fri, 30 May 2003 07:17:55 -0400 Original-Received: from idefix.laley.net (correo.wke.es [172.17.220.16]) by haya.laley.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA17925; Fri, 30 May 2003 13:15:45 +0200 Original-Received: from [172.17.221.23] (jsredondo.wk.org [172.17.221.23]) by Version 5.5.2655.55) id LP7ATL5C; Fri, 30 May 2003 13:19:01 +0200 Original-To: Alex Schroeder In-Reply-To: <8765nsk9nd.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.06.02 Original-cc: Lars Hansen X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14481 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14481 On Fri, 30 May 2003 12:32:06 +0200 Alex Schroeder wrote: > But then again, usability expert Jeff Raskin claims that whenever > there is something to customize, it means that the developpers didn't > know what design decision was the best and left it up to the users > (who aren't usability experts, either). Seems like a fairly narrow POV. "Whenever", indeed? What if there's *no* best decision? Juanma