From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Patrick Anderson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: reconsider defaults custom group Date: 02 Jan 2003 13:36:33 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041543671 28711 80.91.224.249 (2 Jan 2003 21:41:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 21:41:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: alex@emacswiki.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18UD4y-0007Rr-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 22:40:40 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18UD7H-0008O0-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 22:43:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18UCrz-0007b3-06 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 16:27:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18UCG7-0000Hh-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 15:48:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18UCEi-0008Vn-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 15:46:44 -0500 Original-Received: from c7ns3.center7.com ([216.250.142.14] helo=mail.center7.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18UC9H-0007eQ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 15:41:03 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 13161 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2003 20:41:02 -0000 Original-Received: from webmail.altiris.com (192.41.67.3) by 0 with SMTP; 2 Jan 2003 20:41:02 -0000 Original-Received: from webmail.altiris.com ([172.16.0.5]) by webmail.altiris.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Thu, 2 Jan 2003 13:41:11 -0700 Original-Received: from WIKI.altiris.com ([172.16.5.89]) by webmail.altiris.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Thu, 2 Jan 2003 13:41:10 -0700 Original-To: rms@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Lines: 13 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Jan 2003 20:41:10.0800 (UTC) FILETIME=[48A34900:01C2B29F] Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10419 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10419 > I think this is useful, but I agree that `reconsider-defaults'' is a > strange and unnatural name for it. `basic'' or `popular-options'' would > be much better. > > Do you think some of these options should have different defaults? Would > you like to propose 4 options to change the defauls of? > (If you told me a long list, I could not think about them all.) i care nothing about the name. the title reflects my relation to EMACS development (outside of it). the meaning is/was "as a user i want to reconsider this editor's default values". the list is available here http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReconsiderDefaults and is (beginning to be) sorted by order of severity. severity means "variables that the community considers incorrectly defaulted" patrick