Re: Why mouse-1/2/3 ?

["Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>]

On 27/04/2020 10.08, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 09:36:41AM -0400, Clément Pit-Claudel wrote:
>> On 27/04/2020 07.31, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> If you want Emacs to adapt in this point, it's on you to convince
>>> Emacs people that this change is important.
>>
>> FWIW, I don't find the comparison to speaking German very convincing either.
> 
> All metaphors suck in some way. My point is... I've seen all
> too often this antipattern: some enters an existing culture
> and shouts into the room "hey, why are you doing this in such
> a weird way? Come do it this other way I propose, it's much
> better!".

Sometimes it takes an outsider to point out that the emperor has no clothes.
Hopefully the Emacs culture is richer than our outdated terminology ^^

> I think if you want to convince people, you might want to go
> a bit smarter about that :-)

I'm not sure (besides, I'm not sure "smarter" is the right word here).  Sometimes just asking "why" is enough to trigger interesting discussions.  If we don't have a good answer to "why?" except "that how we've always done it", then maybe that's a sign that we're not doing it optimally.  (for example, the other thread on Emacs looking square has yielded valuable new ideas).