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Re: delete-selection-mode
From: |
Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: delete-selection-mode |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:51:30 -0400 |
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:
> How about talking about users in general, not only new users use
> emacs, emacs should have good defaults for both new and old users.
If they had the same expectations, yes. But they are often
incompatibles. In such a case, new users expectations should take
precedence, simply because :
- new users might give up because they don't realize that what they
don't like is only a default setting, not inherent to the emacs
program itself
- old user know how to change a simple setting in 30 seconds
That is very short sighted way of looking at things, new users will
become old users with time. A default setting is default because it
common by those who use something alot; if one cannot use emacs out of
the box without having to modify things, then something is terribly
wrong.
- Re: delete-selection-mode, (continued)
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- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/22
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Thomas Lord, 2008/04/22
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Jason Rumney, 2008/04/22
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2008/04/22
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/22
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/22
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Paul R, 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode,
Alfred M. Szmidt <=
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Robert J. Chassell, 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Robert J. Chassell, 2008/04/22
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2008/04/22
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Robert J. Chassell, 2008/04/22
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Reitter, 2008/04/22
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/21
- RE: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2008/04/20
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/20