From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enhance the use of prefix arguments when filling text
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 17:15:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h97bcswt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5dc78c51-c472-9a9d-f933-0804c5e19ea8@orcon.net.nz> (message from Phil Sainty on Sun, 13 Nov 2016 23:33:39 +1300)
> From: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 23:33:39 +1300
>
> > So why isn't the default 'hybrid'? It sounds like a more
> > backward-compatible setting to me.
>
> Yes indeed, but it's also a weird setting in that different numbers
> have completely different meanings, so I was a bit loathe to make it
> the default. It's not a very intuitive use of the 0-9 numeric prefix
> unless you already know why it works that way.
>
> My thinking was that people who tended to use, say, M-1 M-q to
> justify text would immediately notice the change and quickly find
> their way to the new option by looking at C-h k M-q (docstrings not
> yet updated in this patch) or the NEWS file, and quickly rectify
> the situation one way or another; whereas for everyone else it seemed
> nicer to me if the default behaviour was the more consistent one.
>
> I don't feel too strongly about it, so I'm perfectly happy to make
> the hybrid setting the default if people think it's for the best.
I don't feel strongly, either, and will probably never use this
feature anyway. So let's see if there's someone else who thinks
'hybrid' is a better default.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-13 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-12 11:21 [PATCH] Enhance the use of prefix arguments when filling text Phil Sainty
2016-11-12 11:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-13 10:33 ` Phil Sainty
2016-11-13 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-11-14 23:14 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-11-12 17:21 ` Herring, Davis
2016-11-13 10:21 ` Phil Sainty
2016-11-12 18:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-13 10:23 ` Phil Sainty
2016-11-14 22:56 ` John Wiegley
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