Re: Honoring traditional defaults

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Sascha Wilde wrote:
> Maybe I'm mistaken, but afaik there is already a special mode for those
> spoiled rodent lovers: CUA mode.  And even more: there is already a wide
> consensus not to make CUA default.

The consensus is that it is very difficult to make it the default. Not 
that everyone thinks that it is a bad idea.

> That does not mean that the defaults should never change, it only means
> that the main target of the defaults shouldn't be what newbies might
> _expect_.  (Note, how that is different from what might be really
> _useful_ to newbies.)

You can only think that way if you assume that you know more in a 
certain case.