From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, mathias.dahl@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:19:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1HcNZ5-00068U-Og@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <876481t7mu.fsf@debby.local.net> (message from Dieter Wilhelm on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:55:53 +0200)
The point for retaining thumbs is that one can't please everybody with
one approach. From a user's perspective I think offering choice
outstrips every other disadvantage concerning maintainability,
consistency, etc.
Many users find that "more choice" adds up to "complexity" and
"uncertainty". It is therefore usually much better to provide just
one feature for a certain job than to provide two.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-13 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-10 21:04 Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme Dieter Wilhelm
2007-04-10 21:18 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-11 6:44 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-04-11 19:46 ` Richard Matthew Stallman
2007-04-11 21:55 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-12 17:43 ` Richard Matthew Stallman
2007-04-12 21:59 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-13 0:55 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-04-13 9:01 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-04-14 10:55 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-04-14 15:55 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-15 20:00 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-04-16 15:38 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-16 18:50 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-04-16 18:36 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-04-16 18:58 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-04-18 2:02 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-18 12:02 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-04-19 1:07 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-04-19 15:11 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-19 2:38 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-19 9:10 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-04-19 9:30 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-19 12:46 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-04-19 12:55 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-19 13:37 ` Markus Triska
2007-04-19 13:43 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-04-20 14:52 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-20 15:47 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-20 15:53 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-20 16:03 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-22 0:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-22 2:04 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-22 3:44 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-22 7:34 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-22 8:19 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-04-22 10:53 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-04-22 11:11 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-22 13:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-04-22 13:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-04-22 14:02 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-22 11:40 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-04-22 12:31 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-04-22 15:12 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-22 16:05 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-04-19 15:24 ` Drew Adams
2007-04-19 20:41 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-04-19 16:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-19 20:43 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-04-20 14:52 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-13 15:19 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-04-14 11:46 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-04-13 15:19 ` Richard Stallman
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