From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Feeling lost without tabs Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 22:33:53 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <834myc64eh.fsf@gnu.org> <877g37ubbi.fsf@debian.uxu> <87bnsicr8l.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1405996524 20544 80.91.229.3 (22 Jul 2014 02:35:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 02:35:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 22 04:35:17 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X9PvB-0007G9-3j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 04:35:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37197 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9PvA-00032a-PH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 22:35:16 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="aabc59b8ce9cdce0c2995912677c9e55"; logging-data="8778"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19BLb+VQZLyuAC+b3HnH5nEHzSIBrSOD3g=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hCStH7Zm8Fc7nOphkCUA+TxpU/Y= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206615 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98887 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Dan Espen writes: > >> I just feel the best one should be the default. >> Could be ibuffer or some other xbuffer is the best, >> but electric is better than the default (IMO). > > Perhaps it would make sense to merge some or many of > those projects if they are so similar. In principle I > don't mind lots of stuff doing more or less the same > thing, and especially if it is very ambitious projects > such as web browsers, mail clients, and so on, they > don't have to be different even in principle because > the complexity will add so many big and subtle > differences anyway. However, for seemingly small > projects like this one has to wonder if there isn't > reinvention of the wheel going on. It wouldn't be far > fetched for the users of one to miss out the features > of another, and being oblivious to this as this perhaps > isn't discussed so often - it is such a low profile > thing, look the same, do seemingly the same things - > not likely to stir controversy or be the focus of the > discussion particularly often. I agree. Way too many buffer thingies. It's like each time someone comes up with an improvement we get a new one instead of the original gaining the new features and everyone benefiting. -- Dan Espen