From: John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: small Eshell docfix
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:19:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2u0ui7v6h.fsf@Majnun.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1C2Gmh-0007nc-No@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:07:23 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> It seems \ is a better default, makes the GNU system more coherent
> overall. I think people will get used to the change.
I have always thought one of Emacs' best selling points was that it
provides a consistent environment across nearly all operating systems.
That, at least, was a huge draw for me: I can start up Emacs on
Windows, without modification, and lose none of its functionality.
The change you are proposing takes the emphasis away from Emacs, and
puts it on GNU/Linux. Since we are talking about Emacs, why all the
hoopla about GNU/Linux?
I chose the defaults I did so that Eshell would behave similarly on
all platforms. I ask that you please not change such an excellent
design philosophy now.
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-31 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-30 3:31 small Eshell docfix Richard Stallman
2004-08-30 7:58 ` John Wiegley
2004-08-30 13:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-30 13:46 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-08-30 18:28 ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-30 22:03 ` John Wiegley
2004-08-31 22:06 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-01 5:45 ` Oliver Scholz
2004-09-02 4:53 ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-30 19:43 ` Emilio Lopes
2004-08-31 22:07 ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-31 23:19 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2004-09-01 19:24 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-01 20:23 ` Emilio Lopes
2004-09-01 23:14 ` Miles Bader
2004-09-02 11:19 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-09-02 19:47 ` Emilio Lopes
2004-09-06 6:47 ` John Wiegley
2004-09-06 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-07 16:29 ` Alex Schroeder
2004-09-07 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-07 22:41 ` Alex Schroeder
2004-09-08 3:53 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-07 23:28 ` John Wiegley
2004-09-07 23:45 ` Miles Bader
2004-09-08 5:12 ` John Wiegley
2004-09-03 17:23 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-04 20:06 ` Emilio Lopes
2004-09-05 4:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
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