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From: | Lennart Borgman (gmail) |
Subject: | Re: [patch] Re: regexp repacement, how to present replacement to user? |
Date: | Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:03:22 +0200 |
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Richard Stallman wrote:
> The question is, is this operation sufficiently useful that we > should add functions to Emacs to do it, and document them? Well, these sort of operations are sufficiently obscure that one should add functions for them, I think. There must be thousands of things that are meaningful and obscure, and it would be a change for the worse to complicate Emacs by adding them all. We should only add the ones that are substantially useful. The question is whether this is one of them.
Is not this something that can affect new users? It looks so to me from the situation where it can show up.
The lack of this feature might make Emacs look even more difficult than it is for a new user. It might also actually makes it more difficult for them by drawing their attention to something that is not worth their attention.
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