From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Bookmark the end of file?
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 14:34:54 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <033842f3-dd9b-4a9d-a6f6-263ef2f33ad6@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv6191gisw.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org>
> > Even if you were right that one use case is more common, why
> > wouldn't we want to let users control the behavior, instead of
> > deciding it for them at coding time?
>
> Because offering more choices doesn't always help the user.
No, of course not. But neither does offering fewer choices.
How about speaking to this particular question, instead just
throwing out truisms?
(Why paint that boat orange? Because it's not always best to
paint boats blue...)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-12 21:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-06 23:39 Bookmark the end of file? Marcin Borkowski
2015-04-06 23:59 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-07 1:03 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-04-07 0:00 ` Dale Snell
2015-04-07 1:10 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-04-07 13:36 ` J. David Boyd
2015-04-07 19:11 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-04-07 16:49 ` Dale Snell
2015-04-07 19:19 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-04-07 21:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-07 22:27 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-12 20:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-12 20:42 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-12 21:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-12 21:34 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-04-13 2:23 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.528.1428874505.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-13 3:28 ` Do we want more choice? (was Bookmark the end of file?) Rusi
2015-04-13 5:35 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-13 7:17 ` tomas
2015-04-13 7:53 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-04-13 8:12 ` tomas
2015-04-13 14:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-13 19:23 ` tomas
2015-04-14 7:38 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2015-04-14 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-14 14:42 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2015-04-14 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-14 15:37 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2015-04-13 17:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-13 19:26 ` tomas
2015-04-13 7:36 ` Marcin Borkowski
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