Re: line-move-visual

[Uday S Reddy <uDOTsDOTreddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>]

Mark Crispin wrote:

> The notion of "community-owned software" works as ideology, but not as 
> reality.  If emacs was really community-owned software, I as a community 
> member could revert the change in the official distribution sources.  
> And then there could be revert wars ala Wikipedia.

Exactly!  By "community-owned", I don't mean community-developed.  There needs 
to be control and discipline etc in the development team.  Otherwise, there 
will be chaos, and mission-critical fitness will go out of the window.

By community ownership, I only mean that all the people that have a stake in 
the system have a voice in the matter and we all feel ownership of the system. 
  When the community is divided, as seems to be the case on this issue, the 
developers have to make a decision and move on.

In any case, I think we have reached a point where you and Stefan need to talk 
to each other directly and sort it out.  In my humble opinion, it is easy to 
argue that the current default was ill-chosen.  But it is not so easy to argue 
that it should be changed.  If we change it, then we face all the same issues 
all over again affecting the other users that are depending on the current 
default.  So, it seems best to leave things as they are and make a note of all 
the lessons learned.

> But even the laymen become power-corrupted.

I think that is a bit of an exaggeration.  They have a responsibility to bear 
and sometimes they get carried away.

> Since user interface surprise is a barrier to upgrade, they make sure 
> there aren't any such surprises.

Yes, that point is well-made.  But, the same argument now suggests that the 
default should not be changed yet again.

Cheers,
Uday