From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: reconsider defaults custom group Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 20:26:03 -0000 (UTC) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <7816.192.41.67.99.1041539163.squirrel@iceland.freeshell.org> References: <87adiuyn8x.fsf@emacswiki.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041542375 21295 80.91.224.249 (2 Jan 2003 21:19:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 21:19:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: alex@emacswiki.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18UCkX-0005XK-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 22:19:33 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18UCmp-00088P-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 22:21:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18UCZ9-0003AU-01 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 16:07:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18UC7S-0007MR-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 15:39:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18UBwI-0005Wv-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 15:27:41 -0500 Original-Received: from iceland.freeshell.org ([207.202.214.138] helo=sdf.lonestar.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18UBuu-0005EK-00; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 15:26:12 -0500 Original-Received: (from nobody@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.6) id h02KQ3A06493; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 20:26:03 GMT Original-Received: from 192.41.67.99 (proxying for 172.16.5.89) (SquirrelMail authenticated user patware) by iceland.freeshell.org with HTTP; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 20:26:03 -0000 (UTC) Original-To: In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.10) Original-cc: patware@freeshell.org Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org 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:10417 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10417 > I think this is useful, but I agree that `reconsider-defaults' is a > strange and unnatural name for it. `basic' or `popular-options' would > be much better. > > Do you think some of these options should have different defaults? Would > you like to propose 4 options to change the defauls of? > (If you told me a long list, I could not think about them all.) i care nothing about the name. the title reflects my relation to EMACS development (outside of it). the meaning is/was "as a user i want to reconsider this editors default values". the list is available here http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReconsiderDefaults and is (beginning to be) sorted by order of severity. severity means "variables that the community considers incorrectly defaulted"