From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How are the defaults chosen? Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2020 22:40:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12854"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: thibaut.verron@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 10 04:41:15 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kGCWQ-0003FR-RD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 04:41:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53652 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGCWP-0001Xn-U4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 22:41:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39862) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGCVr-0000gt-F1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 22:40:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48961) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGCVr-0004rv-4H; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 22:40:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kGCVp-0007tg-Nn; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 22:40:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Thibaut Verron on Wed, 9 Sep 2020 10:02:15 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:254944 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] To understand the defaults, you need to keep in mind the history, both that of implementing various features, and that of key bindings. It is easy to add a feature, much harder to change the default. It is easy to add a command, hard to find a short key binding for it. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)