Re: line-move-visual

[Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com>]

Right.  I know about "New Options"  It's Good, and to my mind
basically answers the OP's concern.  But I wanted to shift the
discussion slightly from just the 'new options' to 'significant
options (new or not) for which different usage scenarios might dictate
different defaults.'  Of course ANY of the user configurable variables
might count *to someone* as belonging to that category.  But it seems
that there are things that come up on this list that are genuinely
(and earnestly) disputed, since multiple defaults make sense, each for
a different (broad) portion of the Emacs community.  These should be
easier to find than they are.  This then would make the agonizing
issue of what the proper default should be a little less agonizing.

Scot


On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Eli Zaretskii<eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:43:37 +0100
>> From: Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com>
>> Cc: miles@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jem@iki.fi,
>>       Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
>>
>> Discoverability is key.  This could be done through a customize
>> interface, as Stephen suggests or simply through a piece of startup
>> documentation called "Things you might want to tweak."
>
> We already have a feature that is close to that:
>
>  Options->Customize Emacs->New Options
>
> It asks for an old version, and presents a Customize buffer with all
> options changed or introduced since that version.
>