From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes for emacs 28 Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2020 17:04:25 +0300 Message-ID: <83k0x3kpw6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20200906133719.cu6yaldvenxubcqq.ref@Ergus> <20200906133719.cu6yaldvenxubcqq@Ergus> <874ko8wu8k.fsf@blind.guru> <83eencmj3l.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32922"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: spacibba@aol.com, mlang@blind.guru, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 09 16:05:11 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kG0il-0008Qa-1t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 16:05:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53732 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kG0ik-0008Cn-5H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 10:05:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43608) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kG0i7-0007mp-F9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 10:04:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34821) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kG0i6-0001Hy-Mp; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 10:04:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4126 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kG0hz-0007G1-7i; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 10:04:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Dmitry Gutov on Wed, 9 Sep 2020 01:06:31 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:254868 Archived-At: > Cc: spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 01:06:31 +0300 > > On 08.09.2020 17:35, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > See, that's exactly the crux of the difficulty in these matters: ask N > > people about changing defaults to M options, and you get the number of > > different "please do this and this, but not that" opinions almost as > > large as the number of permutations. > > Honestly, I don't think that enabling (or not) display-line-numbers-mode > is going to be a big deal either way: it's easy to enable or disable, > and it has little far-reaching consequences otherwise. That was only an example. And anyway, isn't what you say above true for almost every optional feature in Emacs? > > So either (1) we go for the lowest common denominator of features that > > most people agree to (which can easily be an empty set); or (2) we > > come up with groups of optional features which are turned on and off > > together. > > Orthogonally, we could decide on a method for changing defaults which > doesn't involve the impossible task of making everybody happy but still > makes some effort to change with the times. If this can be done, why not? But based on past experience, I'm skeptical, to tell the truth.