From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Bingo <right.ho@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions)
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2018 12:26:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8336uktk4s.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41DF4279-89F4-413A-B3BC-63E9E9E98772@gmail.com> (message from Bingo on Sat, 08 Sep 2018 14:03:46 +0530)
> Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2018 14:03:46 +0530
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Bingo <right.ho@gmail.com>
>
> 1. When Emacs first starts, see if there is an init file. Various modern software do so, so we would be on solid ground there.
>
> 2. If so, trust the user that he would have set delete-selection-mode as required.
I'm not sure this is a valid assumption. A user could have
delete-selection-mode not turned on because she had no idea such a
thing existed in Emacs.
> This would avoid stepping on the toes of power users : which form the majority of Emacs users.
Please note that veteran users only care about defaults when they need
to use Emacs on someone else's machine, or when logged on as some
other user (like root or su).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-08 9:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-08 3:49 delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Bingo
2018-09-08 7:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 8:33 ` Bingo
2018-09-08 9:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-09-09 13:13 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-09 14:53 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-09 15:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-09 17:59 ` Ergus
2018-09-09 19:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-09 22:33 ` Ergus
2018-09-09 23:34 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-11 4:22 ` Richard Stallman
2018-10-14 16:07 ` Emacs undo behavior frustrating for new users. (WAS: delete-selection-mode as default) Karl Fogel
2018-10-14 18:42 ` Emacs undo behavior frustrating for new users Stefan Monnier
2018-10-15 4:59 ` Karl Fogel
2018-10-15 6:11 ` Noel Taylor
2018-10-15 5:43 ` Emacs undo behavior frustrating for new users. (WAS: delete-selection-mode as default) Richard Stallman
2018-10-15 7:28 ` Van L
2018-10-16 6:44 ` Richard Stallman
2018-10-17 10:09 ` Nathan Moreau
2018-10-17 10:38 ` Emacs undo behavior frustrating for new users Andreas Schwab
2018-10-18 7:23 ` Richard Stallman
2018-10-17 12:00 ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-17 14:05 ` Nathan Moreau
2018-10-17 14:20 ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-17 14:33 ` Yuri Khan
2018-10-17 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-18 7:23 ` Richard Stallman
2018-10-15 8:26 ` Emacs undo behavior frustrating for new users. (WAS: delete-selection-mode as default) Yuri Khan
2018-10-16 6:44 ` Richard Stallman
2018-10-16 7:22 ` Yuri Khan
2018-10-17 7:05 ` Richard Stallman
2018-10-20 8:15 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-10-20 18:33 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-10-15 7:54 ` Joost Kremers
2018-10-15 9:27 ` Joost Kremers
2018-10-15 12:01 ` Emacs undo behavior frustrating for new users Óscar Fuentes
2018-10-15 13:28 ` Joost Kremers
2018-10-16 12:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-17 7:05 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-09-08 3:46 delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Bingo
2018-09-07 0:32 Noam Postavsky
2018-09-07 0:35 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-07 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 9:40 ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-07 13:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 11:37 ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-08 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 15:35 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-07 16:16 ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-07 19:01 ` tomas
2018-09-07 19:23 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-07 20:28 ` tomas
2018-09-07 20:33 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-07 21:31 ` tomas
2018-09-09 13:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-09 14:22 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-09-09 15:12 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-09 20:39 ` Joost Kremers
2018-09-09 22:24 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-10 3:08 ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-10 3:17 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-10 5:15 ` Bingo
2018-09-10 18:16 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-10 18:35 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-09-10 19:19 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-10 20:36 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-10 7:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-11 4:22 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-11 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-12 0:33 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-11 8:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-12 0:33 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-12 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 5:13 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-08 14:54 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-09 1:23 ` Ergus
2018-09-08 17:25 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
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