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Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default
From: |
Sascha Wilde |
Subject: |
Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:28:16 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
"paul r" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Most average developpers I know will simply never tweak any of the
> piece of software they use.
[...]
> I think emacs customization process is already fairly good. But many
> beginners will simply give up *before* even discovering M-x customize
To be honest: I don't care to much about that kind of people. There is
a fair amount of software out there to suit there (limited?) needs --
please don't try to make Emacs just another one of these.
I like Emacs for being driven by "doing the right thing" and by that
aiming to become the perfect tool from hackers for hackers[0].
By all means: educate those who are willing to learn: don't make it
unnecessarily hard for them and point them in the right direction,
e.g. by pointing out that customization is crucial to make Emacs
"yours".
But _pretty please_ don't choose the defaults on what joe average
programmers would expect.
cheers
sascha
[0] btw. I think that a significant number of those folks you are
talking about will not know the meaning of the word "hacker" in the
sense I'm using it here. Coincidence? I don't think so... ;-)
--
Sascha Wilde : "The PROPER way to handle HTML postings is to cancel
the article, then hire a hitman to kill the poster, his wife and kids,
and fuck his dog and smash his computer into little bits. Anything
more is just extremism." -- Paul Tomblin
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, (continued)
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/24
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, paul r, 2008/03/24
- RE: Transient Mark Mode on by default, Drew Adams, 2008/03/24
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, paul r, 2008/03/24
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/03/24
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/03/24
- RE: Transient Mark Mode on by default, Drew Adams, 2008/03/24
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, Jari Aalto, 2008/03/29
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default,
Sascha Wilde <=
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, Mike Mattie, 2008/03/24
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, paul r, 2008/03/24
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, Mike Mattie, 2008/03/24
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/03/24
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, paul r, 2008/03/24
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, Bastien, 2008/03/24
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, paul r, 2008/03/25
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, Bastien, 2008/03/25
- Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default, paul r, 2008/03/26
- Honoring traditional defaults [was: Transient Mark Mode on by default], Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/03/24