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 14:29:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2v9gc60y5.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b8239410-941e-21a1-3b87-cb56be9f5ed2@grinta.net> (Daniele Nicolodi's message of "Thu, 17 Sep 2020 13:08:50 +0200")
>>>>> On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 13:08:50 +0200, Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net> said:
Daniele> On 16/09/2020 15:29, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Would it make sense to define a new custom-theme (or minor-mode until
>> custom-theme can handle that) which makes Emacs's behavior match the
>> "standard" in most other applications?
Daniele> If I understand correctly the recent discussions, one of the main goals
Daniele> is to make Emacs more accessible to newcomers. In this respect, are we
Daniele> sure that using the "theme" concept, associated (outside the Emacs
Daniele> world) with customizing how applications looks, to configure the
Daniele> application behavior is a good idea?
Daniele> Reportedly, one of the things that newcomers struggle with is the
Daniele> peculiar and unique jargon used to describe Emacs concepts. This would
Daniele> add one more. I think the concept of "mode" as something that changes
Daniele> application behavior is well established and easier to explain.
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.
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-17 12:29 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 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2020-09-17 12:35 ` CUA-theme? Daniele Nicolodi
2020-09-17 13:03 ` CUA-theme? Robert Pluim
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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