From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A modern-mode? Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 03:36:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3440"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andrea Corallo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 16 09:37:05 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 1kIS00-0000l6-14 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 09:37:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49404 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kIRzz-0005p9-31 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 03:37:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48648) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kIRzB-0005AD-G2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 03:36:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35212) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kIRzB-0007pJ-0j; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 03:36:13 -0400 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kIRzA-0006PB-Kn; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 03:36:12 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Andrea Corallo on Wed, 16 Sep 2020 07:27:10 +0000) 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:255833 Archived-At: The word modern has a negative meaning in that it implies that the rest of Emacs isn't modern -- why would users ever want to switch of "modern-mode" and use the un-modern Emacs? As this is meant to be an help for new starters we should feel free to improve these from release to release without a negative impact on old new starters, as by definition they are not anymore new starters :) ever-changing-mode? :)