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Re: message-mode is now default?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: message-mode is now default? |
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Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:32:04 +0200 |
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"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:
> > So why not making message-mode the default when those problems
> > are fixed?
>
> The long painful thread included various questions asking in which
> way message-mode was different, and nobody was able to answer those
> questions.
>
> Several people already noted why they prefer mail-mode, that you do
> not agree with these opinions is not a reason to dismiss them as
> "nobody was able to answer".
>
> Eli has now listed many UI changes that differ between mail-mode and
> message-mode, including code changes.
>
> Clearly, message-mode and mail-mode are different enough that making
> message-mode default was a premature change, so the right thing to do
> is change it back.
As long as message-mode is more in line with what a newcomer would
expect, I don't see why we should strive to retain the previous
behavior.
Bringing message-mode in line with mail-mode makes only sense where
message-mode is clearly inferior.
> Those who wish to make message-mode behave more like mail-mode can
> then work on that.
But those who wish to make message-mode behave more like mail-mode are
apparently those who have been using mail-mode up to now. And their
only incentive to work on message-mode is when message-mode is the
default.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: message-mode is now default?, (continued)
- Re: message-mode is now default?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/07/23
- Re: message-mode is now default?, Richard Stallman, 2009/07/19
- Re: message-mode is now default?, Stefan Monnier, 2009/07/19
- Re: message-mode is now default?, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/19
- Re: message-mode is now default?, Richard Stallman, 2009/07/19
- Re: message-mode is now default?, Miles Bader, 2009/07/19
- Re: message-mode is now default?, Richard Stallman, 2009/07/19
- Re: message-mode is now default?, Chong Yidong, 2009/07/20
- Re: message-mode is now default?, Reiner Steib, 2009/07/20
- Re: message-mode is now default?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/07/19
- Re: message-mode is now default?,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: message-mode is now default?, Bastien, 2009/07/19
- Re: message-mode is now default?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/07/19
- Differences between mail-mode and message-mode - sending mail (was: message-mode is now default?), Reiner Steib, 2009/07/19