From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Emacs-Devel devel' <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Bikeshedding "user choice"
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:20:09 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tyh67v9y.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DAB42B19E2F941C190B4856231C07BF0@us.oracle.com>
Drew Adams writes:
> Do I really need to state why I prefer giving users more choice?
No, you don't. Since whether or not to give users choice is a matter
of design, it is a matter of taste. De gustibus non est disputandum.
However, if you want to convince other people, you do. It is far from
obvious that maximizing user choice is a good thing. In fact, the
whole point of "automation" is to *free* the user of the need to make
choices.
Applied to the original thread, once the user has the capability of
binding a key, then she has the choice to bind it to `ignore' or
`unbound-event-error'. So, the question is about defaults. In
general, if Emacs (core, library, or user) hasn't bound the key, fall
back to OS if available seems like a good idea (POLA). The additional
option to change the default fallback (yikes!) that you advocate is a
YAGNI (yes, even *you* don't *need* it!)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-18 3:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-05 14:48 Bikeshedding go! Why is <M-f4> unbound? Deniz Dogan
2011-01-05 15:29 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-01-05 17:11 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-01-05 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-05 17:36 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-01-05 18:15 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-01-09 22:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-10 1:01 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-10 1:46 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-10 3:01 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-10 3:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-12 13:53 ` Stuart Hacking
2011-01-12 15:01 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-12 15:54 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-01-12 17:17 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-12 20:29 ` Chad Brown
2011-01-12 20:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-12 20:42 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-01-13 2:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-13 3:13 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-13 3:59 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-01-13 4:15 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-13 13:13 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-01-13 16:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-13 18:05 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-01-13 21:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-13 22:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-14 0:12 ` Jason Rumney
2011-01-14 0:21 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-14 5:02 ` Jason Rumney
2011-01-14 8:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-13 22:18 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-13 22:30 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-13 22:47 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-13 23:04 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-01-13 23:14 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-14 9:25 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2011-01-14 9:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-13 22:53 ` Stuart Hacking
2011-01-13 23:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-14 0:13 ` Jason Rumney
2011-01-14 1:35 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-14 5:08 ` Jason Rumney
2011-01-14 10:49 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-01-14 15:21 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-14 15:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-15 0:07 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-01-15 11:41 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-16 21:49 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <227F94B0AC1649C1A41082A24!9921783@us.oracle!! .com>
[not found] ` <227F94B0AC1649C1A41082A24! 9921783@us.oracle! .com>
[not found] ` <227F94B0AC1649C1A41082A24!9921783@us.oracle!! ! .com>
2011-01-16 23:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-17 1:40 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-17 1:52 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-17 8:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-17 18:22 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-17 18:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-17 19:02 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-17 19:27 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-18 3:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2011-01-18 5:29 ` Bikeshedding "user choice" Drew Adams
2011-01-18 6:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-01-18 17:45 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-19 4:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-01-19 19:34 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-18 8:06 ` Bikeshedding go! Why is <M-f4> unbound? jasonr
2011-01-17 19:27 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-01-17 20:24 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-17 2:27 ` Jason Rumney
2011-01-17 18:21 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-16 21:49 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-14 17:58 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-14 20:27 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-14 22:24 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <D727BC7268A24AF7B9544FD4E0B74E11@us! .oracle.com>
2011-01-14 22:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-16 21:49 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-16 23:49 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-17 0:33 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2011-01-17 1:41 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-17 1:45 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-17 8:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-17 8:47 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-01-17 9:23 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-17 18:22 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-17 18:22 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-15 2:38 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-01-16 21:49 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-10 10:15 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-01-05 15:31 ` Christopher Allan Webber
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-19 21:51 Bikeshedding "user choice" grischka
2011-01-19 23:27 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-20 18:18 ` grischka
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