From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: hw <hw@adminart.net>
Cc: spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Some developement questions
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 17:04:41 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837ekhb2me.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877ekigiiw.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> (message from hw on Thu, 23 Aug 2018 00:17:11 +0200)
> From: hw <hw@adminart.net>
> Cc: spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 00:17:11 +0200
>
> I think I see your point to assume that the defaults are good and to
> present the user with the individual settings and to let him learn and
> make his own decisions because everyone is too different to do anything
> else. That's great when the new user uses Emacs because he wants to
> learn how to use it, and it might not be so good when he wants to use
> Emacs to get some work done while the defaults happen not to be good for
> him: Even better when he can simply switch to a set of settings that
> helps him with his work without having to go through all the trial and
> error otherwise needed to get there.
>
> Does that make sense?
It might. However, the proverbial proof of the pudding is in eating
it: I look forward to seeing concrete proposals of sets of non-default
settings that cater to certain users. Then we could perhaps discuss
this further based on practical proposals, and see whether and how to
incorporate that into Emacs.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-23 14:04 UTC|newest]
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2018-08-17 20:49 ` Some developement questions Ergus
2018-08-18 6:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-22 12:34 ` hw
2018-08-22 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-22 16:37 ` hw
2018-08-22 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-22 22:17 ` hw
2018-08-23 0:20 ` Ergus
2018-08-23 10:50 ` hw
2018-08-23 16:33 ` Ergus
2018-08-23 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-23 8:26 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-08-23 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-08-24 1:00 ` hw
2018-08-24 9:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-25 0:45 ` Ergus
2018-08-26 12:46 ` hw
2018-08-25 1:31 ` hw
2018-08-25 7:35 ` Alexis
2018-08-25 10:34 ` Ergus
2018-08-25 16:11 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-08-25 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-25 20:34 ` Ergus
2018-08-26 2:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-26 1:24 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-08-25 20:50 ` Ergus
2018-08-26 1:33 ` hw
2018-08-26 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-26 22:51 ` hw
2018-08-27 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-28 20:42 ` hw
2018-08-29 6:59 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-29 20:10 ` hw
2018-08-31 13:16 ` Michael Albinus
2018-09-01 17:53 ` hw
2018-09-03 13:35 ` Michael Albinus
2018-09-04 14:06 ` hw
2018-08-29 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-29 20:52 ` hw
2018-08-29 22:12 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-08-30 23:49 ` hw
2018-09-03 18:56 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-09-04 14:16 ` hw
2018-09-04 19:47 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-09-05 20:36 ` hw
2018-09-06 1:33 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-09-06 5:16 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-06 5:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-09-06 13:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2018-09-06 14:30 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-07 7:03 ` hw
2018-09-06 13:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 7:01 ` hw
2018-09-06 18:15 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-09-07 7:18 ` hw
2018-09-07 14:10 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-09-07 21:27 ` hw
2018-09-10 12:29 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-09-10 18:18 ` hw
2018-09-11 9:51 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-09-11 20:14 ` hw
2018-09-12 1:18 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-08-30 2:12 ` Davis Herring
2018-09-01 17:40 ` hw
2018-09-01 19:41 ` Joshua Branson
2018-09-02 15:07 ` hw
2018-09-02 18:23 ` Ergus
2018-09-04 15:21 ` hw
2018-09-04 20:57 ` Ergus
2018-09-05 21:48 ` hw
2018-09-01 22:13 ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-02 15:39 ` hw
2018-09-02 22:01 ` Juri Linkov
2018-09-03 7:30 ` martin rudalics
2018-09-04 15:35 ` hw
2018-09-04 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-05 22:21 ` hw
2018-09-03 7:29 ` martin rudalics
2018-09-01 22:30 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-02 16:02 ` hw
2018-09-02 17:50 ` Ergus
2018-08-30 13:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-31 0:40 ` hw
2018-09-01 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-02 16:27 ` hw
2018-09-02 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-04 15:43 ` hw
2018-09-04 16:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-05 22:40 ` hw
2018-08-30 23:30 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-09-01 18:25 ` hw
2018-09-02 19:05 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-09-02 20:42 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-09-03 2:37 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-09-04 15:57 ` hw
2018-08-26 20:41 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-27 2:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-27 22:51 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-27 17:11 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-08-28 3:41 ` Ergus
2018-08-26 13:06 ` hw
2018-08-27 2:18 ` Ergus
2018-08-25 8:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-26 14:25 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-08-26 15:52 ` hw
2018-08-26 16:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-27 4:59 ` hw
2018-08-27 1:54 ` Ergus
2018-08-27 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-28 21:26 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-29 15:39 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-01 13:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-02 3:11 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-02 17:52 ` Ergus
2018-09-04 15:20 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-04 13:07 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-05 6:26 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-06 0:29 ` hw
2018-09-07 6:39 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-07 8:01 ` hw
2018-09-07 10:26 ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-07 14:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 16:00 ` Drew Adams
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2018-09-07 16:03 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-07 14:15 ` hw
2018-09-07 15:34 ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-07 21:03 ` hw
2018-09-07 15:52 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-08 5:13 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-08 13:02 ` hw
2018-09-08 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 23:23 ` hw
2018-09-09 5:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 9:35 ` hw
2018-09-10 12:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 19:27 ` hw
2018-09-10 13:52 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-09 6:07 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-09 6:07 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-09 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-09 17:18 ` Ergus
2018-09-10 11:59 ` hw
2018-09-10 12:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 19:48 ` hw
2018-09-11 7:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-11 20:31 ` hw
2018-09-06 13:59 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-04 12:58 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-04 16:30 ` hw
2018-09-04 19:13 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-04 20:11 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-04 20:31 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-06 12:32 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-06 14:25 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-04 21:14 ` Ergus
2018-09-05 2:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-05 6:29 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-05 7:59 ` Joost Kremers
2018-09-05 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-09 20:07 ` Joost Kremers
2018-09-09 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 5:16 ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-10 7:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 8:26 ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-10 12:06 ` hw
2018-09-10 12:44 ` Michael Albinus
2018-09-10 14:57 ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-10 19:58 ` hw
2018-09-11 6:31 ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-11 20:37 ` hw
2018-09-10 12:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-06 1:11 ` hw
2018-09-06 1:41 ` Ergus
2018-09-07 8:11 ` hw
2018-09-06 12:29 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-06 14:24 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-06 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 6:39 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-07 8:25 ` hw
2018-09-07 9:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 13:22 ` hw
2018-09-07 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 16:34 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-07 21:29 ` hw
2018-09-08 6:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 13:12 ` hw
2018-09-08 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 11:52 ` hw
2018-09-10 12:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 20:04 ` hw
2018-09-08 17:00 ` Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-08 23:02 ` Juri Linkov
2018-09-10 6:47 ` hw
2018-09-10 14:13 ` Drew Adams
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2018-09-09 2:09 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-09 23:05 ` Drew Adams
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2018-09-06 14:56 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-06 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-06 19:27 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-09-06 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2018-09-06 23:47 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-07 6:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 8:16 ` hw
2018-09-04 20:38 ` Ergus
2018-09-06 12:58 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-07 8:45 ` hw
2018-09-03 22:15 ` debounce (was: Some developement questions) Juri Linkov
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2018-08-16 13:34 ` Some developement questions Ergus
2018-08-16 14:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-16 14:38 ` Aurélien Aptel
2018-08-16 15:28 ` Andy Moreton
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