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Re: please make line-move-visual nil


From: Leo
Subject: Re: please make line-move-visual nil
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 00:18:18 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

On 2009-05-24 23:33 +0100, Drew Adams wrote:
> I'm coming back to this thread because I just tried the new pretest 
> (23.0.94.1),
> where the default value of `line-move-visual' is t.
>
> This is insane, IMO. The default value is t even in formatted modes such as
> Buffer Menu and Info. It is t even in code modes such as Emacs-Lisp. If you 
> use
> `define-derived-mode' to define a new mode from scratch - a mode that has no
> parent mode, it has value t in that mode. It has value t everywhere, by 
> default.
> This makes no sense.
>
> If you absolutely feel the need to make the default value be t for modes such 
> as
> text-mode, which (you are convinced) are likely to benefit from it, then do 
> so.
> But PLEASE leave the rest of Emacs alone, by default. This is a bad choice for
> Emacs - please reconsider this.

I also think this is very bad design. Just imagine in vi, change hjkl to
something different.

If the purpose is to make new users feel at home, then we could create
something like firstboot.el that runs in the first run. Most operating
systems have this.

Bye,
-- 
.:  Leo  :.  [ sdl.web AT gmail.com ]  .: I use Emacs :.





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