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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [gmane.emacs.diffs] master 2621c29: Use colors in the CV mode lines
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 12:52:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m28u1v1g96.fsf_-_@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3h9gkdjxg.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 06 Mar 2016 10:39:39 +0100")

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> We should provide defaults that make sense for the users. That's why font
> locking comes with colours pre-chosen by us. If some users want different
> colours, they can choose them, including choosing not to have any colours at
> all.

I think emacs-devel has sufficiently demonstrated that no one of us knows what
"makes sense for the users". When establishing defaults for a new feature,
we're pretty flexible, but not when it comes to changing a long established
default without discussion.

I have reverted the change until more of us are convinced otherwise.

-- 
John Wiegley                  GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
http://newartisans.com                          60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2



  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-06 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-04 22:06 [gmane.emacs.diffs] master 2621c29: Use colors in the VC mode lines Mark Oteiza
2016-03-06  4:49 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-06  9:39   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-06 20:52     ` John Wiegley [this message]
2016-03-08  0:09       ` [gmane.emacs.diffs] master 2621c29: Use colors in the CV " Juri Linkov
2016-03-08  5:12     ` [gmane.emacs.diffs] master 2621c29: Use colors in the VC " Stefan Monnier
2016-03-07  0:25 ` Juri Linkov

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