From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to poll the users Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 23:25:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87mu78huhx.fsf_-_@yahoo.com> <87k12bdgx7.fsf@yahoo.com> <87a736wyed.fsf@yahoo.com> <2F7AD0CB-FF83-4244-BD77-7E0460A77762@icloud.com> <87wo6a7abj.fsf@yahoo.com> <87o8rlbnic.fsf@yahoo.com> <45098d13-2770-4a19-6f82-b22276eb51c8@yandex.ru> <877dy91mb0.fsf@yahoo.com> <0ce06d95-0593-bc55-983f-6b6601503a1a@yandex.ru> <38f07534-f9db-64eb-5256-e73bcebafef4@yandex.ru> <8e4a5b46-f9a6-400e-f573-f73b419e229f@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="31590"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, pcr910303@icloud.com, seb@k-7.ch, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 26 05:26:24 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jSXvz-00088a-T7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Apr 2020 05:26:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51266 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSXvy-0000Ev-RD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 23:26:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38286) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSXvE-0007jr-Mo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 23:25:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37498) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSXvE-0007s5-2G; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 23:25:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jSXut-0001lH-A9; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 23:25:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8e4a5b46-f9a6-400e-f573-f73b419e229f@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sat, 25 Apr 2020 07:09:09 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:247816 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. ]]] > Speaking of the default values, what do you think about using your > scenario to ask the users about their preferred value of > indent-tabs-mode? I can create a poll with four options: "strong tabs > preference", "strong spaces preference", "mild tabs preference", "mild > spaces preference". People can add extra explanations in comments. The idea of a poll is to understand the effects of the various choices, and find out the specific reasons for users to prefer this or that, and evaluate their significance -- NOT to count how many people prefer each choice. It is a mistake to count the answers, because a given change can affect one user very often, and affect another user only rarely, but they might both state a "strong preference". -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)