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: Context menus and mouse-3 [was: Changes for emacs 28] Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 00:01:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87k0wwsrj4.fsf@gkayaalp.com> <87h7ryet7n.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <837dsu8nne.fsf@gnu.org> <87k0wuynde.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <874knwalok.fsf@mail.linkov.net> 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="37154"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, self@gkayaalp.com, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, ghe@sdf.org, eliz@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net, drew.adams@oracle.com To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 19 06:02:53 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 1kJU5N-0009ZF-R5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2020 06:02:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57344 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kJU5M-0006Mh-Td for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2020 00:02:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58422) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kJU4X-0005em-Ut for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2020 00:02:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38566) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kJU4W-0002r1-SQ; Sat, 19 Sep 2020 00:02:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kJU4Q-0008HV-U7; Sat, 19 Sep 2020 00:01:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Fri, 18 Sep 2020 03:53:52 -0700) 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:256143 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. ]]] > > Constructively, I propose to include in Emacs a new mode > > (with a name like 'modern-mouse-mode') where Sure, why not? > But why not make this the default? Changing the default is a serious matter. It requires agreement that the new default is better. By contrast, introducing a new optional mode does not require much discussion. Once we release Emacs with this new mode, we can ask users to try it and we can find out whether people like 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)