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: lax matching is not a great default behavior Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 09:40:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <837fl2qzs2.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448980875 28177 80.91.229.3 (1 Dec 2015 14:41:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 14:41:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 01 15:41:06 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a3m77-0008D6-TP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:41:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53018 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3m77-0002ZI-77 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 09:41:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46437) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3m73-0002ZC-C6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 09:41:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3m72-0008Fq-Ij for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 09:41:01 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41874) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3m6y-0008EW-Ef; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 09:40:56 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1a3m6x-0004QR-Mm; Tue, 01 Dec 2015 09:40:55 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:51:21 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:195674 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] The way to decide about changing the defaults is to poll the users. People have recently made various changes in defaults without doing that. For instance, making C-j in an isearch match spaces. This change should be reverted without delay. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.