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([2601:184:4180:66e7:cc48:a1aa:dc04:6757]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w13-v6sm1700491uao.45.2018.09.09.07.22.47 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 09 Sep 2018 07:22:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20180909134529.GB6047@ACM> Content-Language: en-GB X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::935 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:229557 Archived-At: On 2018-09-09 09:45, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > In the current polling exercise, I would urge those interpreting the > responses to take account not merely of the numbers of > supporters/detractors but the strength of feeling behind those responses. Careful with this though. It's easy to misread a moderate response backed by strong feelings and classify it as "don't care too much". > I've seen several such that strongly dislike d-s-mode, but haven't seen > any saying "I utterly detest editors lacking delete-selection-mode". > That suggests to me that we should not enable this mode by default. Here's a different take on the same observation: people who don't like delete-selection-mode seem to care very much, so we can assume they'll make the effort to turn it off. Conversely, people who do like it seem to like it only a little, so we can't assume they'll trouble themselves to find the right setting and toggle it. Hence, it should be enabled by default :) I don't trust user polls much, FWIW. They're heavily biased, and people are not good judges of what makes them productive.