From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: thibaut.verron@gmail.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How are the defaults chosen?
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2020 22:40:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1kGCVp-0007tg-Nn@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFsi02R2S+_HXRAfa7VaKk1=ZXD7OfgG=qHja72W2bA_JFA2EQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Thibaut Verron on Wed, 9 Sep 2020 10:02:15 +0200)
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To understand the defaults, you need to keep in mind the history, both
that of implementing various features, and that of key bindings.
It is easy to add a feature, much harder to change the default.
It is easy to add a command, hard to find a short key binding for it.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-09 8:02 How are the defaults chosen? Thibaut Verron
2020-09-09 8:16 ` Vasilij Schneidermann
2020-09-09 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-09 14:33 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-09 15:07 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-09 15:58 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-09 16:27 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-09 16:40 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-09 23:06 ` Daniel Martín
2020-09-10 0:00 ` Ergus
2020-09-10 0:40 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-10 6:15 ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-09-10 12:22 ` Drew DeVault
2020-09-10 12:47 ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-09-10 13:10 ` Drew DeVault
2020-09-10 16:56 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-11 4:09 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-10 13:28 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-09-12 3:17 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-12 6:19 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-09-12 11:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-12 12:20 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-09-12 13:07 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-09 22:20 ` Bonface M. K.
2020-09-10 9:30 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-10 2:40 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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