From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chad Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs User Friendliness Question/Hope Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:01:53 -0700 Message-ID: <8BA6A3D9-5780-46D3-AE8A-1B7E52ACEAB2@mit.edu> References: <1279277325.2135.114.camel@logrus.localdomain> <1279290657.2135.131.camel@logrus.localdomain> <1279293961.2135.143.camel@logrus.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1279299729 15619 80.91.229.12 (16 Jul 2010 17:02:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:02:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jeff Clough Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 16 19:02:05 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZoIX-00030R-4Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:02:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41360 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OZoIW-0004g2-HJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:02:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44990 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OZoIQ-0004fx-SQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:01:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZoIP-0003Wq-F8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:01:58 -0400 Original-Received: from dmz-mailsec-scanner-8.mit.edu ([18.7.68.37]:44897) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZoIP-0003Wk-CX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:01:57 -0400 X-AuditID: 12074425-b7b12ae0000009fd-60-4c4090842b64 Original-Received: from mailhub-auth-3.mit.edu (MAILHUB-AUTH-3.MIT.EDU [18.9.21.43]) by dmz-mailsec-scanner-8.mit.edu (Symantec Brightmail Gateway) with SMTP id 1A.61.02557.480904C4; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:01:56 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by mailhub-auth-3.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.9.2) with ESMTP id o6GH1u8r030718; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:01:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.0.1.5] (c-98-247-149-76.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [98.247.149.76]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as yandros@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id o6GH1rXt017357 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:01:55 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <1279293961.2135.143.camel@logrus.localdomain> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAARUrKiQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:127443 Archived-At: On Jul 16, 2010, at 8:26 AM, Jeff Clough wrote: > I think you have over-generalized what I was asking for. While I do feel your pain, and share it to some degree, I expect emacs = to continue to offer settings for such things based on features, rather = than versions or `some point in time'. If you find that this takes up = too much space in .emacs for you, it shouldn't be hard to put together = an elisp package that contains all of those settings that you think = should be disabled for `compatibility mode'; at that point, it's just a = matter of submitting it to emacs-devel for inclusion (or simply relying = on emacswiki.org or the upcoming package system, for example). *Chad