From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: nljlistbox2@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 23372-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23372: 25.0.93; text-quoting-style missing from manual and from customize
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:30:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lh40287l.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd466f56-0733-48c2-8431-d082ae877014@default> (message from Drew Adams on Mon, 25 Apr 2016 18:41:23 -0700 (PDT))
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 18:41:23 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: 23372@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> It _should_ be a user option. You've radically changed the
> default behavior of Emacs. Give individual users a simple
> way to undo your choice. This is at least as important as
> letting a user change the default appearance of a face.
I don't think we know enough about the impact of this feature to make
that decision at this time. We will have to see how it is accepted by
the users out there first. It could be deemed by the majority as the
best invention since sliced bread. Having a variable to disable it is
a good fire escape for now.
> And yes, it should be prominently documented.
It is, just not in the user manual.
Closing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-26 6:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-25 12:59 bug#23372: 25.0.93; `text-quoting-style' missing from manual and from customize N. Jackson
2016-04-25 22:26 ` bug#23372: 25.0.93; text-quoting-style " Paul Eggert
2016-04-26 1:41 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-26 6:30 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-04-27 0:02 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-27 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-27 19:10 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-28 21:45 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-04-29 21:22 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-29 21:22 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-28 21:45 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-04-29 10:37 ` bug#23365 and Org-mode for 25.1 Phillip Lord
2016-04-29 21:23 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-30 7:48 ` Phillip Lord
2016-04-30 7:51 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-29 12:54 ` bug#23372: 25.0.93; text-quoting-style missing from manual and from customize Nicolas Petton
2016-04-29 12:54 ` Nicolas Petton
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