From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: cua-mode and the tutorial Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:52:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <44C8F069.1070002@student.lu.se> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156758984 7751 80.91.229.2 (28 Aug 2006 09:56:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:56:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 28 11:56:22 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHdqm-0002oz-LK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:56:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHdqm-0003J2-9A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:56:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GHdn8-0001I9-Lb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:52:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GHdn8-0001Hl-5j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:52:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHdn8-0001Hg-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:52:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GHdw3-0001DJ-7a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 06:01:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1GHdn7-0005S1-2L; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:52:25 -0400 Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-reply-to: (storm@cua.dk) 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:58980 Archived-At: > No one should do that! People are not supposed to start off > new users with nonstandard Emacs settings. So why do we have site-start.el and site-lisp/default.el ? For things other than changing the user's key bindings. The easiest way for me to ensure that all these "pseudo users" have the same emacs setup is to use site-start.el FOR ME AND ONLY ME. So, it's not "people" doing that -- it's "me". You're the only one involved, in this scenario, so you're not treating anyone else badly. But this is a special case, and you're the one who has told me that some sysadmins set up Emacs in a nonstandard way for _other people_. And what exactly do you intend to change? Enabling cua-mode, viper-mode, delete-selection-mode, pc-selection-mode, glasses-mode, .. any minor mode? Perhaps this should be done for whichever modes we find are often being imposed on other users in this way.