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Re: Recentish C-s M-y change
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Recentish C-s M-y change |
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Tue, 29 Dec 2020 01:01:20 -0500 |
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> > Could we move the new `C-s M-y' functionality somewhere else and retain
> > the old `C-s M-y' binding?
> This has been discussed many times, and the most promising solution is
> to add a single variable that will define whether the user prohibits
> changing the definitions of traditional keys.
I think that is a bad approach, and here is why.
Various changes are made in the Emacs user interface. Occasionally
there is one I find inconvenient and want to avoid. But not all of
them. Probably not most of them.
I want options to undo the changes I don't like, but I don't
want that to imply rejecting _all_ changes in a blanket way.
Now, if there are people who would like the ability to say, "Give me
the Emacs 26 user interface," I don't object to offering it. We could
have a mechanism to associate user interface changes with major versions
and then let users choose a version.
But this is not a substitute for letting people disable specific
changes independently -- those changes which need it. Some changes
are easy to revert by setting a key binding, and they don't need
an option.
We could pay attention to implementing a change, when possible, in a
way that would make it easy to revert by setting a key binding or an
option. In other words, think in advance about the possibility that
some people may not like the change.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
- Re: Recentish C-s M-y change, (continued)
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- Re: Recentish C-s M-y change, Andreas Röhler, 2020/12/30
- Re: Recentish C-s M-y change, Gregory Heytings, 2020/12/30
- Re: Recentish C-s M-y change, Filipp Gunbin, 2020/12/30
- Re: Recentish C-s M-y change, Richard Stallman, 2020/12/31
- Re: Recentish C-s M-y change, Filipp Gunbin, 2020/12/30
- RE: Recentish C-s M-y change, Drew Adams, 2020/12/30
- Re: Recentish C-s M-y change, Richard Stallman, 2020/12/31
- Re: Recentish C-s M-y change, Filipp Gunbin, 2020/12/30
- Re: Recentish C-s M-y change, Jean Louis, 2020/12/30
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Re: Recentish C-s M-y change, Richard Stallman, 2020/12/29