From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Finding packages to enable by default Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 09:28:15 +0900 Message-ID: <87eh5s3zvk.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <8761ra7uq3.fsf@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1386203320 23109 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2013 00:28:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 00:28:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andrew Hyatt , Tom , Bozhidar Batsov , emacs-devel To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 05 01:28:44 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VoMo7-0002Gv-N1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2013 01:28:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51041 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VoMo7-0006ns-Ao for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Dec 2013 19:28:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57330) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VoMnw-0006ex-AO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Dec 2013 19:28:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VoMno-0003rD-RU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Dec 2013 19:28:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:36396) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VoMno-0003iD-GE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Dec 2013 19:28:24 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2A8F970A27; Thu, 5 Dec 2013 09:28:15 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B6D3C1A5205; Thu, 5 Dec 2013 09:28:15 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" 2a0f42961ed4 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:166098 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > >> column-number-mode > > We could enable this. XEmacs has enabled it by default for a decade. It's not unpopular. We've had only one or two complaints about the flicker in the modeline, and those from Ancien Hacquers. > >> delete-selection-mode This gets vocifierous opposition although it's undeniably popular. > >> global-linum-mode Ditto, but not so popular. > >> show-paren-mode > > Too much in your face for me. It doesn't seem to be that popular. Vociferous opposition, no support for default when suggested. > >> uniquify > > Already enabled by default now. Ditto. FWIW, the important one is column-number-mode which is tested and liked in our users. Steve