From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs manual mentioning thumbs mode but not tumme Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:19:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87slb8szz9.fsf@debby.local.net> <17947.65334.841905.101671@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17949.22877.645175.478069@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17950.43941.498605.877229@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <876481t7mu.fsf@debby.local.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176477785 23497 80.91.229.12 (13 Apr 2007 15:23:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:23:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, mathias.dahl@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dieter Wilhelm Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 13 17:22:59 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HcNc1-0008Tl-BT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:22:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HcNgI-0002XQ-Jc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:27:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HcNfn-0001tL-EI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:26:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HcNfm-0001r0-ON for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:26:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HcNfl-0001ox-Rt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:26:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HcNbT-0004OD-Ml for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:22:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HcNZ5-00068U-Og; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:19:55 -0400 In-reply-to: <876481t7mu.fsf@debby.local.net> (message from Dieter Wilhelm on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:55:53 +0200) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:69402 Archived-At: The point for retaining thumbs is that one can't please everybody with one approach. From a user's perspective I think offering choice outstrips every other disadvantage concerning maintainability, consistency, etc. Many users find that "more choice" adds up to "complexity" and "uncertainty". It is therefore usually much better to provide just one feature for a certain job than to provide two.