From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Schroeder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Face color changes Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:18:56 +0100 Message-ID: <87zmzvamy7.fsf@confusibombus.emacswiki.org> References: <01c4ec3a$Blat.v2.2.2$24b7cc60@zahav.net.il> <87oegf5974.fsf@jurta.org> <01c4ed1a$Blat.v2.2.2$4b8d4aa0@zahav.net.il> <87k6r1r7bb.fsf@jurta.org> <87u0q5ruqx.fsf@confusibombus.emacswiki.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104421514 10907 80.91.229.6 (30 Dec 2004 15:45:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:45:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, eliz@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 30 16:45:01 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no ([193.71.71.242]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ck2U0-0006Xu-00 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:45:01 +0100 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [199.232.76.165]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.13.1/8.13.1/GN) with ESMTP id iBUFixA9003892 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:45:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Ck2ex-00057v-Cw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:56:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Ck1NG-0002k8-Gq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:33:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Ck1NB-0002i3-Sz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:33:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Ck1NA-0002hb-Lb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:33:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.2.95.247] (helo=smtp.hispeed.ch) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1Ck1Bm-0001MS-Rw; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:22:07 -0500 Original-Received: from confusibombus.emacswiki.org.emacswiki.org (80-218-6-247.dclient.hispeed.ch [80.218.6.247]) by smtp.hispeed.ch (8.12.6/8.12.6/tornado-1.0) with ESMTP id iBUEM4Fx013108; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:22:04 +0100 Original-To: rms@gnu.org Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwCAYAAABXAvmHAAACkElEQVR42s1a0bLsIAgzjv// y7kPd9pVKxKVdk6fzux2C4EAwR6QZBpcQEopIf3Fq3a52Lfh0Mjjk99zcWYBwA2ihEen9jVxfAf/ u0+Y2HQwNoVw4Dx34trRV6NSjiLPmfPt77jwiBxB/3PnZ3B2AGxzHnGu0wcBwAIAyQwZGvQhiFcy YLOFQcSB/MS82n3ec37vykNqRFTX9rVWR2U5+pZNIggll0CUOQN9BDdm1LfBmcZxIEqjL6r2JU/D galaB7Zg4jlY2ulnIx9OR4iMRl38CAFyKaA8jAxE7lNn650VKMULZ/54crqn0YQCJGQliebXkFIK hwqmGm28cgsSjz/hzRCMneQEwMjVoH3gWTtMPgIslJUV5uIluvUEkyzU+gUGQO62e9NuSdZCzNOM fDPC87iCqfE9gHinsIrSL16TPBfrYIeHzqKU90a50jCh54EcrgAUFo5ibzvebgr/I66USQ0CspQp IVSoBQK3WswDDIndIraHxoglqOjM1d044PQvu1NY0EHtqQR/XwJ+PeCs0x2dSlApZVw4MPER23PD 7JekoHxrqTRod/2Gx5nhx5dfAJhqPt7tDMIZxNN/7lOIaparPn7ZQ88drlORC2eLWXowxIq4gHTh VN1BSmsHoxYAbPWDTuGQuuecS+aYQUYpfr0YqPQOuuUk5tApK077+2xfOYP+XyWEIwPcE49lvT9N y2+wU2KylGGp4yxlALcm6fSlmgk62yfSsfNunDl5d6W91MBUoZw679YAJoMMkhijuXdFOL+khaL2 s+g3zy4APQuQvSc/BNAYnkl6E8ivYtEHJXa1dihE3zgnKMdNgN8DiIwgA17NykUMvFDQ+LALvXXI BuBLAHv/DvBmc/0HzR03PqXmLcQAAAAASUVORK5CYII= In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:22:32 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:31599 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31599 Richard Stallman writes: > But if he changes to a different kind of environment for which the > alternative he customized would not have been used at all, he will get > the default for that environment, which will probably be good. I argued that this will be confusing. The user might ask: "Where did my customizations disappear to?" -- Since the user might not be aware that the customizations would yield bad results on the new display, this is a legitimate question. Emacs will seem less "predictable" (for lack of a better word to describe this aspect of usability). Your reply did not address the issue. You therefore assume this is no problem? Alex. -- .O. http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/ ..O Schroeder's fifth law: OOO Never accept more work than you can handle in one night of hacking.