Re: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding.

[Richard Stallman]

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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.


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