From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, bzg@altern.org, eliz@gnu.org,
drew.adams@oracle.com
Subject: Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:58:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Oya93-0005yS-Uq@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buod3s6jraj.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (message from Miles Bader on Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:11:48 +0900)
[I seem to recall you making the point in the past that the polls are
not so much a "vote" as a way to solicit reasoned arguments from a
somewhat wider group than the regular developers.]
Yes, indeed.
It seems like the usefulness of the results would depend very much on
the nature of the question -- e.g., the results might be a lot better
when you want the feedback of experienced long-time Emacs users (and
it's OK for the results to be heavily biased in that direction), than
when you want the opinion of the "mythical newbie" or even the average
Emacs user.
What we find out from polls is whether significant groups of people
find a certain feature useful, and if so _why_ they do.
That enables us to find changes that won't cause problems for them
and avoid changes that will.
If we just speculate about this, we might be very wrong.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-23 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 133+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-18 1:49 C-d deleting region considered harmful Miles Bader
2010-09-18 3:06 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-18 14:53 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 8:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-18 15:00 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 19:22 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-20 16:11 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-18 9:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-18 9:45 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-18 10:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-18 10:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-18 12:02 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-18 15:26 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 16:14 ` Christoph
2010-09-18 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-18 16:25 ` Christoph
2010-09-18 19:41 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-18 19:45 ` Christoph
2010-09-19 14:17 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-19 14:23 ` Christoph
2010-09-19 14:46 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-19 21:02 ` Christoph
2010-09-19 21:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-19 23:26 ` Christoph
2010-09-20 6:52 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-19 21:39 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-19 23:39 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-09-19 23:46 ` Christoph
2010-09-18 15:15 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 14:21 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-18 15:05 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 16:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-18 18:44 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 18:53 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-18 19:11 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-20 0:16 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-20 0:22 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-20 3:10 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-20 11:51 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-20 7:56 ` Bastien
2010-09-20 10:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-20 11:21 ` Bastien
2010-09-20 11:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-20 12:07 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-20 12:35 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-09-20 12:37 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-20 12:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-20 12:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-22 0:56 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-22 5:11 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-23 0:58 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2010-09-20 1:24 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-21 0:56 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-21 1:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-21 7:51 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-21 8:19 ` PJ Weisberg
2010-09-21 1:30 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-21 1:47 ` Leo
2010-09-21 2:42 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-18 16:47 ` Christoph
2010-09-18 18:44 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 18:50 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-18 19:13 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 19:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-18 19:39 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-19 6:31 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-19 11:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-19 11:23 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-18 20:42 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-18 20:22 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-18 14:29 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 15:07 ` Bastien
2010-09-18 15:52 ` Christoph
2010-09-18 18:40 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-18 18:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-18 19:09 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-18 21:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-19 14:00 ` Christoph
2010-09-19 14:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-19 18:00 ` Chad Brown
2010-09-19 18:21 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-19 18:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-19 20:06 ` Should C-x C-x activate the region? [was: C-d deleting region considered harmful] Drew Adams
2010-09-19 20:37 ` David Reitter
2010-09-21 0:55 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-20 1:21 ` C-d deleting region considered harmful Miles Bader
2010-09-20 6:59 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-20 13:43 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-20 16:02 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-20 7:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-20 7:20 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-20 16:34 ` Chad Brown
2010-09-20 22:09 ` C-x C-x (was: C-d deleting region considered harmful) Stefan Monnier
2010-09-20 22:46 ` Chad Brown
2010-09-21 0:17 ` C-x C-x Chong Yidong
2010-09-21 20:52 ` Johan Bockgård
2010-09-21 0:28 ` C-x C-x (was: C-d deleting region considered harmful) Andrew W. Nosenko
2010-09-21 1:06 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2010-09-21 7:49 ` C-x C-x David Kastrup
2010-09-21 9:22 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2010-09-21 9:40 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-24 23:59 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2010-09-21 7:25 ` C-x C-x (was: C-d deleting region considered harmful) Thierry Volpiatto
2010-09-21 1:03 ` C-d deleting region considered harmful Miles Bader
2010-09-21 19:12 ` Chad Brown
2010-09-19 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-19 19:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-09-19 21:27 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-19 14:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-19 21:11 ` Christoph
2010-09-21 6:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-21 8:04 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-21 8:23 ` Leo
2010-09-21 8:52 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-09-21 9:20 ` Leo
2010-09-21 9:56 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-18 20:23 ` Christoph
2010-09-19 6:28 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-19 12:40 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-19 13:38 ` Christoph
2010-09-19 14:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-19 19:18 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-19 19:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-22 9:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-19 13:55 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-19 14:23 ` Christoph
2010-09-18 18:44 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-19 1:05 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-09-18 11:55 dhruva
2010-09-18 14:22 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-18 15:18 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 17:48 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-18 19:24 ` Drew Adams
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