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Re: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding.
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding. |
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Sun, 07 Feb 2021 00:33:40 -0500 |
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> We never bother ourselves with such questions; never did. We consider
> ourselves to be aware and familiar enough with the Emacs usage
> landscape to make such decisions without polling users on each and
> every step, because doing so would slow down development to an
> unbearable crawl.
You're right, but I think we are having a miscommunication.
I'm not saying we should poll the users about this.
That wasn't the intention at all.
Here's the discussion that led up to it:
> I'd prefer to find a binding to which people could agree, because that
> would leave fewer people unhappy.
How do we know that? Users haven't been polled,
have they? Emacs users and Emacs have survived
for 35+ years without a global binding for
`revert-buffer'. Why assume that most users now
would be happier if it had a global binding?
So I added
More than that. Over that time, how often have people
asked for such a global binding?
My point was that we should not assume there is a lot of demand for
this 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: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding., (continued)
- Re: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding., Richard Stallman, 2021/02/05
- Re: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding., Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/05
- Re: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding., Thibaut Verron, 2021/02/05
- Re: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding., Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/05
- Re: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding., Thibaut Verron, 2021/02/05
- Re: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding., Dmitry Gutov, 2021/02/05
- RE: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding., Drew Adams, 2021/02/05
- RE: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding., Drew Adams, 2021/02/05
- Re: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding., Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/05
- Re: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding., Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/05
- Re: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding.,
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- RE: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding., Drew Adams, 2021/02/07
- Re: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding., Richard Stallman, 2021/02/07
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