From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enhance the use of prefix arguments when filling text Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 17:15:46 +0200 Message-ID: <83h97bcswt.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83k2c8di9r.fsf@gnu.org> <5dc78c51-c472-9a9d-f933-0804c5e19ea8@orcon.net.nz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1479050156 30477 195.159.176.226 (13 Nov 2016 15:15:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 15:15:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Phil Sainty Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 13 16:15:52 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c5wVU-0006bq-Uw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 16:15:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34072 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5wVW-0007eT-Bl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 10:15:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58643) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5wVQ-0007eL-Av for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 10:15:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5wVN-0001rl-6q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 10:15:40 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49090) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5wVN-0001rf-3P; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 10:15:37 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4829 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1c5wVM-0002wi-Fb; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 10:15:36 -0500 In-reply-to: <5dc78c51-c472-9a9d-f933-0804c5e19ea8@orcon.net.nz> (message from Phil Sainty on Sun, 13 Nov 2016 23:33:39 +1300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209373 Archived-At: > From: Phil Sainty > 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.