From: Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: use-package
Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 00:37:43 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a592c77-4531-414a-a644-988800cdbeb6@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.2761.1463153947.7477.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
On Friday, May 13, 2016 at 9:09:09 PM UTC+5:30, Drew Adams wrote:
> Making a blanket, one-size-fits-all judgment for everyone
> takes choice away from users.
:
:
> I'm all for such a possibility. What I am not for is
> Emacs imposing or recommending this or that look & feel
> in some blanket way.
>
> Let a hundred flowers bloom. Vive the mode line.
etc
Just consider me in the opposite camp.
Everything else being equal too much choice is a bad thing:
https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice
One could go further and DEFINE freedom as choicelessness.
While I wont do that I will say that emacs is progressing from the
best software category to suxware category by offering too much bogus choices
- .emacs.d/init.el or .emacs
- custom-file or let customize mess your init
- setq or customize
- half a dozen options to specify keybindings
- eval-after-load or add-hook or simple-setq (+prayer that the mode author
followed norms)
I could go on
But I think you get the idea -- Choice is undesirable if there is any choice
about making the choice
Most recent example of bogus choices
haskell mode has been upgraded to some new fancy beyond-comint stuff
But the old comint is still there -- if you like -- Choice after all is wonderful.
Result: What used to work OTB now needs to have explicit define-keys to make
sure user chooses old or new interface
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-14 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-02 17:07 use-package Uwe Brauer
2016-05-02 18:47 ` use-package Kaushal Modi
2016-05-03 10:47 ` use-package Uwe Brauer
2016-05-03 14:01 ` use-package Kaushal Modi
2016-05-03 22:28 ` use-package Stefan Monnier
2016-05-04 3:33 ` use-package Kaushal Modi
2016-05-04 12:09 ` use-package Stefan Monnier
2016-05-04 16:22 ` use-package Phillip Lord
2016-05-04 16:44 ` use-package Drew Adams
2016-05-05 13:34 ` use-package Phillip Lord
2016-05-05 14:00 ` use-package Drew Adams
2016-05-05 15:56 ` use-package Kaushal Modi
2016-05-05 16:12 ` use-package Drew Adams
2016-05-10 9:20 ` use-package Phillip Lord
2016-05-10 9:18 ` use-package Phillip Lord
2016-05-11 11:42 ` use-package Kaushal Modi
2016-05-12 21:04 ` use-package Phillip Lord
2016-05-13 11:56 ` use-package Stefan Monnier
2016-05-14 22:27 ` use-package Phillip Lord
2016-05-15 3:22 ` use-package Stefan Monnier
2016-05-13 15:38 ` use-package Drew Adams
2016-05-16 15:16 ` use-package Phillip Lord
2016-05-16 16:49 ` use-package Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.2761.1463153947.7477.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-05-14 7:37 ` Rusi [this message]
2016-05-10 9:13 ` use-package Phillip Lord
2016-05-05 9:51 ` use-package Uwe Brauer
2016-05-05 13:38 ` use-package Phillip Lord
2016-05-03 22:21 ` use-package Stefan Monnier
2016-05-05 10:15 ` use-package Uwe Brauer
2016-05-05 23:41 ` use-package Stefan Monnier
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