Re: Emacs default bindings

[Stefan Kangas]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> Perhaps you are in the minority?

Perhaps, but I doubt it.  For example, LibreOffice does not highlight
parenthesis.

This is very much a case of programmers imposing programmer defaults.
But Emacs is not only used by programmers, it is a general purpose text
editor.

> We could flip it on universally, and then later change the behavior in
> text modes if we get some more negative feedback.

Why not do it the other way around: flip it on for `prog-mode' and later
turn it on elsewhere if we get feedback that it would be better.