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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Roland Lutz <rlutz-ml@hedmen.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Stop fiddling with my preferences
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 11:27:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141123162705.GB23221@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1411231623120.4785@home.local>

Roland Lutz <rlutz-ml@hedmen.org>:
> How about a command like (use-defaults VERSION)?
> 
> Also, I'd appreciate if the history of user-visible changes included
> the commands necessary to restore the previous behavior.

I second this.  I'm a bit irritated by the new clipboard behavior myself.
We shouldn't ship changes like that without telling people how they
can keep the behavior theiy're used to.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>



  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-23 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-23 15:35 Stop fiddling with my preferences Roland Lutz
2014-11-23 16:27 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2014-11-23 17:32   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-23 17:45     ` Roland Lutz
2014-11-23 17:59       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-23 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-23 17:25   ` Fabrice Popineau
2014-11-25 14:25     ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-11-25 16:47       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-25 17:12         ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-11-25 17:29           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-25 17:30             ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-11-25 19:18               ` Fabrice Popineau
2014-12-01  7:15   ` Bob Proulx
2014-12-01 13:42     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-01 15:54     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-30 14:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-30 14:15   ` joakim
2014-11-30 15:00     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-11-30 14:31   ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-11-30 15:43     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-30 19:32       ` H. Dieter Wilhelm

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