From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Do we want more choice? (was Bookmark the end of file?)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:20:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwviod06jdt.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20150413071741.GA22660@tuxteam.de
> I have the strong suspicion that the "less choice is good" movement
> we are seeing stems from being too lazy (or at a loss) wrt thinking
> hard about how to guide the user through a rich set of choices. The
> latter would be, in my view, the right thing to do.
There are many ways to interpret "less choice is good". For me, what it
means is that adding a custom variable, a C-u prefix, or a new command
just to "give more choice" is often actually either laziness or
a reflection of the fact that it's very hard to find a better UI.
Of course, in Emacs we get to enjoy even more cop-outs and more choices,
since most of the "missing choices" are available to the end user,
modulo a few advice-add and enough motivation ;-)
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-13 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-06 23:39 Bookmark the end of file? Marcin Borkowski
2015-04-06 23:59 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-07 1:03 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-04-07 0:00 ` Dale Snell
2015-04-07 1:10 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-04-07 13:36 ` J. David Boyd
2015-04-07 19:11 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-04-07 16:49 ` Dale Snell
2015-04-07 19:19 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-04-07 21:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-07 22:27 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-12 20:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-12 20:42 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-12 21:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-12 21:34 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-13 2:23 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.528.1428874505.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-13 3:28 ` Do we want more choice? (was Bookmark the end of file?) Rusi
2015-04-13 5:35 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-13 7:17 ` tomas
2015-04-13 7:53 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-04-13 8:12 ` tomas
2015-04-13 14:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-13 19:23 ` tomas
2015-04-14 7:38 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2015-04-14 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-14 14:42 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2015-04-14 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-14 15:37 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2015-04-13 17:20 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-04-13 19:26 ` tomas
2015-04-13 7:36 ` Marcin Borkowski
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