From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Do we want more choice? (was Bookmark the end of file?) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 09:17:42 +0200 Message-ID: <20150413071741.GA22660@tuxteam.de> References: <87vbh8hlns.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> <1b751175-4544-44e7-bbcd-d5a01bf92624@default> <39b824d1-e8d2-4bf7-a983-c6cefff83dad@googlegroups.com> <291260f3-daa1-4ab4-8840-2ee9b9f164ec@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428909489 14758 80.91.229.3 (13 Apr 2015 07:18:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 07:18:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Rusi , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 13 09:18:08 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YhYdC-0005gF-Dj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 09:18:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47336 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YhYdA-0008Cl-TF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 03:18:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60792) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YhYd0-0008CW-0j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 03:17:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YhYcv-0008LZ-VK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 03:17:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:36813 helo=tomasium.tuxteam.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YhYcv-0008Kq-PV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 03:17:49 -0400 Original-Received: from tomas by tomasium.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YhYco-0005zu-4X; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 09:17:42 +0200 In-Reply-To: <291260f3-daa1-4ab4-8840-2ee9b9f164ec@default> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103683 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 10:35:21PM -0700, Drew Adams wrote: [...] > "A general realization." "Nowadays." Ooooh. Can't argue with that. > > Consideration of one particular choice has now been successfully > diverted toward vacuous generalizations about choice in general - > platitudes of Polonius. Too bad. I must say that I agree strongly with this point of view. More choice is *always* better. The hard part is presenting this choice to the user in a way it doesn't overwhelm her/him. I have the strong suspicion that the "less choice is good" movement we are seeing stems from being too lazy (or at a loss) wrt thinking hard about how to guide the user through a rich set of choices. The latter would be, in my view, the right thing to do. - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlUrbZUACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZqHgCfWCmDs7p2DrL7BCSWVv5DPIQg msIAnA4Ui+l9/ltU8UCRuabvCjdRBLBA =Q2jP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----