From: Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org>
To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
gregory@heytings.org, bugs@gnu.support, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:17:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2blcrhgvh.fsf@matts-mbp-2016.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1l9sdr-0006cp-9V@fencepost.gnu.org> (Alfred M. Szmidt's message of "Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:47:03 -0500")
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:
> Why is it always users who have to explain themselves and never the
> developers who change functionality that they don't even seem to use?
In abstract, there are many reasons for this classic pattern of
developer<->user interaction:
- The developers are trying to make the software better overall, and
this often requires change.
- Sometimes there are no remaining active developers on a project that
actually use a particular feature.
- The developers are addressing the requests of *other* users, and it
is not possible to make everybody perfectly happy.
- It is impossible to read minds, so developers must ask users what
they need to do and why.
- Users often don't understand the software as deeply as the developer,
so the developers ask for what the user wants to actually do, but not
necessarily the way the user wants the solution expressed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-10 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 153+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-09 12:30 Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk Gregory Heytings
2021-02-09 15:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-10 14:51 ` Jean Louis
2021-02-10 8:44 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-02-10 13:57 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-02-10 14:54 ` Jean Louis
2021-02-10 15:12 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-02-10 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-10 16:47 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-02-10 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-10 19:17 ` Matt Armstrong [this message]
2021-02-10 16:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-02-10 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-10 18:02 ` andrés ramírez
2021-02-10 17:58 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-11 5:27 ` Jean Louis
2021-02-10 19:10 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-10 19:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-11 2:50 ` Smarter M-x that filters on major-mode Stefan Kangas
2021-02-11 3:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-11 5:02 ` Yuan Fu
2021-02-11 6:15 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-11 6:11 ` Drew Adams
2021-02-11 8:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-11 11:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-11 13:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-11 14:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-11 15:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-11 16:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-11 16:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-11 16:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-11 19:09 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-02-11 19:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-11 20:39 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-02-11 21:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-11 22:22 ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2021-02-12 9:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-12 16:18 ` jao
2021-02-12 17:05 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-12 17:58 ` jao
2021-02-12 17:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-12 17:57 ` jao
2021-02-12 18:12 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-12 18:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-12 23:58 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-02-13 0:14 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-13 0:47 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-02-13 2:26 ` Drew Adams
2021-02-13 3:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-13 11:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-13 11:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-13 11:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-14 2:40 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-14 4:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-14 23:30 ` Drew Adams
2021-02-14 23:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-14 13:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-14 14:20 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-02-14 14:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-14 14:32 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-02-14 14:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-15 18:16 ` Sean Whitton
2021-02-14 15:00 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-14 15:03 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-02-14 16:11 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-14 16:49 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-02-14 23:33 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-15 15:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-02-16 17:07 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-14 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-14 17:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-14 17:59 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-02-14 18:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-14 18:44 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-02-14 18:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-14 19:01 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-02-15 2:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-15 5:25 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-15 12:34 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-02-14 16:15 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-02-14 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-14 17:43 ` Juri Linkov
2021-02-14 18:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-14 23:30 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-14 23:30 ` Drew Adams
2021-02-15 2:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-15 3:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-14 15:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-13 11:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-12 17:37 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-13 11:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-11 14:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-11 15:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-11 17:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-11 17:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-11 18:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-11 21:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-11 23:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-12 8:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-12 13:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-13 11:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-12 9:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-12 10:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-12 10:47 ` Robert Pluim
2021-02-12 11:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-12 13:40 ` Robert Pluim
2021-02-13 11:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-11 8:40 ` tomas
2021-02-11 15:56 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-11 19:03 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-02-11 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-11 20:11 ` tomas
2021-02-11 20:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-12 7:06 ` Jean Louis
2021-02-11 8:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-12 16:39 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-02-12 17:20 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-12 17:56 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-02-11 4:55 ` Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk Yuri Khan
2021-02-11 5:15 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-11 6:29 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-11 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-11 15:46 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-11 16:08 ` Yuri Khan
2021-02-11 16:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-11 17:28 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-11 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-11 19:31 ` Drew Adams
2021-02-11 17:53 ` Yuri Khan
2021-02-11 18:06 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-11 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-11 20:32 ` Yuri Khan
2021-02-11 20:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-12 4:38 ` Yuri Khan
2021-02-12 7:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-11 18:07 ` Yuri Khan
2021-02-11 19:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-11 5:15 ` Jean Louis
2021-02-11 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-11 18:55 ` Jean Louis
2021-02-11 19:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-11 20:20 ` Jean Louis
2021-02-11 20:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-10 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-10 14:50 ` Jean Louis
2021-02-10 16:37 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-10 17:19 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-02-10 17:55 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-02-10 18:29 ` Drew Adams
2021-02-11 5:07 ` Jean Louis
2021-02-11 6:18 ` Drew Adams
2021-02-12 6:54 ` Jean Louis
2021-02-12 17:35 ` Drew Adams
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