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: Honoring traditional defaults - how to do it. [was: Transient Mark Mode on bydefault] Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:24:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87myopnj0l.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <874pavg45t.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <004d01c88e01$0f93b8f0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> <20080325213859.GB1641@muc.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206980709 1145 80.91.229.12 (31 Mar 2008 16:25:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:25:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, stephen@xemacs.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "paul r" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 31 18:25:39 2008 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 1JgMp8-0004p4-Gp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:25:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JgMoW-0003jK-JM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JgMoR-0003gT-N7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:24:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JgMoR-0003fZ-0A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:24:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JgMoQ-0003fJ-Ni for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:24:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JgMoQ-0004o6-KS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:24:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JgMoM-00024l-HH; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:24:42 -0400 In-reply-to: (paul.r.ml@gmail.com) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:94042 Archived-At: > "You are running an Emacs configuration designed to be easy to > _learn_. When you have become somewhat proficient in its use, you > may wish to switch to a standard Emacs setup, which is optimised for > ease of _use_ rather than ease of learning." I like how you formulate the difference between ease of learn and ease of use. Making Emacs easier to learn is an improvement, in general. But what use is there in having a different Emacs configuration which is easier to learn, if it is not the recommended mode of use? That seems like telling people a shortcut leading to somewhere other than their destination.