From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: CUA-theme?
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 15:03:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r1r05zea.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2cfab915-7f58-0941-b8bf-e95bf969bf5d@grinta.net> (Daniele Nicolodi's message of "Thu, 17 Sep 2020 14:35:53 +0200")
>>>>> On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 14:35:53 +0200, Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net> said:
>> Except you then engender confusion with the Emacs concept of
>> modes. Perhaps we should call them 'user type profiles' or something,
>> then we could call them 'new-to-emacs-profile', 'vanilla-profile', etc.
Daniele> Why do you think there would be confusion with the Emacs concept of
Daniele> mode? Aren't Emacs modes things that change how Emacs behaves and
Daniele> defines keybindings?
Because an emacs mode is "hereʼs some specific functionality for this
type of editing/code/etc", and this other mode is "hereʼs a collection
of parameters and Emacs modes configured in such a way that itʼs
easier for people coming from non-Emacs editors".
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-17 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-16 13:29 CUA-theme? Stefan Monnier
2020-09-16 14:29 ` CUA-theme? Tim Van den Langenbergh
2020-09-16 17:22 ` CUA-theme? Stefan Monnier
2020-09-16 20:19 ` CUA-theme? Juri Linkov
2020-09-17 11:08 ` CUA-theme? Daniele Nicolodi
2020-09-17 12:29 ` CUA-theme? Robert Pluim
2020-09-17 12:35 ` CUA-theme? Daniele Nicolodi
2020-09-17 13:03 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2020-09-17 16:14 ` CUA-theme? Drew Adams
2020-09-17 12:42 ` CUA-theme? Thibaut Verron
2020-09-17 13:33 ` CUA-theme? Stefan Monnier
2020-09-17 14:01 ` CUA-theme? Arthur Miller
2020-09-17 14:13 ` CUA-theme? Stefan Monnier
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