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Re: Stop fiddling with my preferences
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Stop fiddling with my preferences |
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Mon, 01 Dec 2014 08:42:02 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> for these (mis)features. Therefore what it feels like is actually
> happening is that when developers want to do something they just do it
> and claim that users want it.
Every release comes with different kinds of new defaults:
- New features that are immediately enabled. These are typically
enabled specifically so that users get to use it without having to
hunt for it and discover that it's actually bundled with Emacs.
- Old features which have been repeatedly requested, and which we
finally polished/refined/cleaned up enough that enabling them by
default is deemed acceptable.
Typical example: shift-select-mode, font-lock-mode.
- Old features I like and can't imagine Bob would like to turn off.
- Random features that will irk old-timers.
This last kind is not useful in itself (other than for comic relief) by
is used afterwards as a witness in our statistical analysis of
bug-reports and complaints to measure more precisely the resistance to
change, and adjust our expectations for the next release.
Stefan