Re: Honoring traditional defaults

[Sascha Wilde]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Sascha Wilde wrote:
>> 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.

True.  But someone knowing both, the concepts and ideas behind "the
Emacs way" and those of common GUI applications (and maybe a bunch of
other non GUI editors) definitely _does_ know more than one who only
knows CUA GUI stuff.

cheers
sascha
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Sascha Wilde 
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