Re: Suggested experimental test

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

* Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> [2021-03-21 13:52]:
> 
> > > May I suggest the attached, slightly more controversial,
> > > experimental test?
> > 
> > Removing `C-o' has already been suggested, and there's already been a
> > lot of negative feedback on that, if I remember correctly.  So I don't
> > think there's much point in doing this experiment.
> > 
> 
> Well... the suggested experiment does not remove C-o, it changes C-o in a
> way that is, I believe, painless.  We cannot know whether it is indeed
> painless without experimenting at a larger scale.  The few who objected
> against changing C-o may well find out, after trying it out, that this small
> change is not as bad as they thought.

We learned in sales to take the viewpoint of a customer to understand
customer better. Now imagine people using C-o for decades and now C-o
does not do what it is supposed to do, but then in other editors
related to Emacs it does what is supposed to do. This impacts users
greatly.

I am multi-editor user, so imagine I start using in vi editor
something like `i i' to insert letters, or `O O' to insert new line,
then one Emacs version will be claiming that C-o does this, the other
that C-o C-o does what C-o was doing. Counting with millions of Emacs
users that brings some implications.