From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Please stop proposing changes in defaults!
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:40:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ve2ac2eo.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Jo1yV-0000rO-51@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:46:51 -0400")
> In the past week we have seen two more proposals to change Emacs
> defaults: one about C-h in isearch, and one about Delete Selection
> mode.
>
> These proposals lead to big discussions and do not really advance
> Emacs. Please stop proposing such changes, and work instead
> on implementing new capabilities.
I think these discussions are very important to advance Emacs because
when people are not happy with some Emacs behavior, such open discussions
often help to achieve a consensus that satisfies everyone.
This is important to make Emacs attractive to more programmers.
I was shocked today when I observed as an unskilled novice programmer
wrote a small library at high speed using an IDE. I'm usually very fast
at using a large set of Emacs commands, but could hardly achieve this
performance because Emacs lacks many useful IDE features that make
programmers more productive.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-21 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-21 19:46 Please stop proposing changes in defaults! Richard Stallman
2008-04-21 21:32 ` Paul R
2008-04-22 4:20 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-21 21:40 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2008-04-22 3:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-22 4:20 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-22 8:48 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-22 11:52 ` What IDE features do we need? [Was: Please stop proposing changes in defaults!] Alan Mackenzie
2008-04-22 12:22 ` Dan Kruchinin
2008-04-22 12:28 ` Dan Kruchinin
2008-04-22 20:08 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-22 21:13 ` Paul R
2008-04-22 13:28 ` What IDE features do we need? defaults!] Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-22 13:41 ` joakim
2008-04-22 17:07 ` klaus.berndl
2008-04-22 14:27 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-22 15:44 ` What IDE features do we need? Alan Mackenzie
2008-04-22 15:40 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-22 17:12 ` joakim
2008-04-22 15:44 ` Eric Hanchrow
2008-04-22 16:27 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-22 21:12 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-23 15:58 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-23 20:29 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-04-24 3:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-24 12:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-24 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-24 17:21 ` Thomas Lord
2008-04-25 3:40 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-04-28 18:28 ` Mike Mattie
2008-04-28 17:57 ` Mike Mattie
2008-04-28 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-24 19:55 ` Bruce Stephens
2008-04-24 5:15 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-24 6:24 ` joakim
2008-04-24 19:42 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-04-24 6:35 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-04-24 9:58 ` klaus.berndl
2008-04-24 10:25 ` David Kastrup
2008-04-24 19:43 ` Richard M Stallman
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