From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: EmacsW32 invocation options
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 03:07:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85k5voulh5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.262.1178316988.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
no-spam@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> So why don't we try to find ways to accomodate people like Lennart
> who really wants to contribute, but whose ideas are too radical to
> be the default behaviour?
>
> E.g. by supporting two installation options
>
> a) maximum cross-platform consistency
> b) maximum adaptation to current platform APIs.
I consider choice a bad idea here. The correct thing to do is to have
both. This should be done using customization themes. If a person
wants to have his Emacs behave like on Windows when on Windows,
chances are that he wants it to behave like on Windows also when he is
on the Mac. One point of Emacs is that it works the same everywhere.
It is fine to let a user have it work like a Windows application at
the drop of a hat under Windows, but it does not make sense to not let
the user have the application work identically on a Mac.
The point of Emacs is feeling at home everywhere.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-05 1:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 108+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-01 13:15 EmacsW32 invocation options Will
2007-05-01 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-01 20:31 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-01 20:39 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-02 3:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-02 7:18 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-02 10:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-05-02 13:28 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-02 14:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-05-02 14:37 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-02 15:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-05-02 15:14 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-02 15:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-05-02 17:31 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-02 20:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-05-02 20:14 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-02 20:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.140.1178137499.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-02 20:23 ` Hadron
2007-05-02 22:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-05-02 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-02 19:38 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-02 20:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.84.1178101677.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-02 11:58 ` Hadron
2007-05-02 14:00 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-05-02 14:30 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-02 14:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-05-02 15:03 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-02 15:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-05-02 15:41 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-02 19:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-05-02 20:16 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-02 20:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-05-02 20:46 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-02 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-02 20:01 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-02 20:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-05-03 9:43 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-05-03 10:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.169.1178189923.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-03 14:41 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-03 22:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.199.1178231896.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-03 22:50 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-04 0:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-05-04 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-04 8:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-05-04 17:42 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-04 18:00 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-04 22:09 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-05-04 23:03 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-05-05 6:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-05 3:04 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.272.1178334669.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-05 6:09 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-05 6:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.275.1178348602.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-05 7:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-05 10:19 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-05-05 6:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2007-05-05 1:07 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-05-05 8:10 ` Brian Elmegaard
2007-05-05 8:14 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-05 8:52 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-06 7:26 ` Brian Elmegaard
[not found] ` <mailman.137.1178136879.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-02 20:20 ` Hadron
2007-05-02 22:22 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.148.1178144974.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-02 22:38 ` Hadron
2007-05-03 3:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2007-05-03 6:24 ` Brian Elmegaard
2007-05-03 8:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
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2007-05-03 22:13 ` Brian Elmegaard
2007-05-04 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2007-05-04 11:21 ` Brian Elmegaard
2007-05-04 12:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2007-05-05 8:03 ` Brian Elmegaard
2007-05-04 12:18 ` Hadron
2007-05-04 14:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-05-04 14:54 ` Hadron
2007-05-04 15:00 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-05-04 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-04 7:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2007-05-05 0:58 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-05 9:36 ` David Reitter
2007-05-05 12:43 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-05 11:18 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.78.1178090729.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-02 11:54 ` Hadron
2007-05-02 13:54 ` Juanma Barranquero
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2007-05-02 14:37 ` Hadron
2007-05-02 22:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-05-02 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2007-05-02 6:01 ` Brian Elmegaard
2007-05-02 13:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
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2007-05-02 14:35 ` Hadron
2007-05-02 22:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-05-02 17:38 ` Brian Elmegaard
2007-05-02 22:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
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2007-05-03 6:25 ` Brian Elmegaard
2007-05-03 8:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-05-02 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-02 19:49 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-03 3:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-03 8:26 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-04 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2007-05-03 6:08 ` Brian Elmegaard
2007-05-04 7:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-03 6:33 ` Brian Elmegaard
2007-05-03 10:02 ` Hadron
2007-05-03 11:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
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2007-05-04 8:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
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