From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: EmacsW32 invocation options Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 03:07:18 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85k5voulh5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <59osrdF2m97hgU1@mid.individual.net> <4637A396.9000300@gmail.com> <46383B57.6050508@gmail.com> <4638EE03.8000602@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178328847 10172 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2007 01:34:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 01:34:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 05 03:34:05 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hk99x-00062Z-Ie for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 03:34:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk9Ge-0004MB-BM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 21:41:00 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!storethat.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.98 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kmQ0vBm1+weSm7ytuCCxmwHmRPo= Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 05 May 2007 03:07:12 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 21327d84.newsspool2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=2A4\; mA]NE9L2C_`koXfC5A9EHlD; 3Yc24Fo<]lROoR18kF5MOK`; S:bhJ List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43709 Archived-At: no-spam@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > So why don't we try to find ways to accomodate people like Lennart > who really wants to contribute, but whose ideas are too radical to > be the default behaviour? > > E.g. by supporting two installation options > > a) maximum cross-platform consistency > b) maximum adaptation to current platform APIs. I consider choice a bad idea here. The correct thing to do is to have both. This should be done using customization themes. If a person wants to have his Emacs behave like on Windows when on Windows, chances are that he wants it to behave like on Windows also when he is on the Mac. One point of Emacs is that it works the same everywhere. It is fine to let a user have it work like a Windows application at the drop of a hat under Windows, but it does not make sense to not let the user have the application work identically on a Mac. The point of Emacs is feeling at home everywhere. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum