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Re: delete-selection-mode


From: Thomas Lord
Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:34:22 -0700
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Richard Stallman wrote:
Is that really an objective point of view? To me it looks like arrogance, and if I were a prospective new user of Emacs encountering it, I might be inclined to look elsewhere.

That would be no disaster.

All else being equal, we would prefer to make each potential user
feel more at home with Emacs.  But that does not mean we will
make incompatible changes that are bad for existing users.
This is a non-starter.

I don't wish to direct any productive labor *away* from GNU Emacs
but, perhaps it would be worth mentioning here that:

1) Editors in the Emacsen family are not *that* hard to write from
   scratch and, historically, each one (more or less) has found new
   ideas worth exploring.

2) It's a fun project, if you can afford to work on it and see it through.

3) It's a lot easier than throwing lots of losing arguments at an Emacs-family
   project that gets along just fine without that.


Go hack!  Why argue?  Start afresh, if the current state seems so bad.

-t













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