From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Stop fiddling with my preferences Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 11:27:05 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141123162705.GB23221@thyrsus.com> References: Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416760075 30661 80.91.229.3 (23 Nov 2014 16:27:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 16:27:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Roland Lutz Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 23 17:27:50 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xsa0q-00072u-2M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 17:27:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49173 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xsa0p-0002Hn-Kp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 11:27:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34110) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xsa0i-0002Hg-HC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 11:27:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xsa0e-0001hk-6V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 11:27:40 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:46339 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xsa0e-0001gn-2T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 11:27:36 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 985A4382D88; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 11:27:05 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:178088 Archived-At: Roland Lutz : > 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. -- Eric S. Raymond