Re: Suggested experimental test

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 08:22:19 +0300
>> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
>> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, gregory@heytings.org,
>>  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
>>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> That way experiments go in parallel not disturbing the default key
>> bindings and users aware or willing to participate may do so.
>
> That just delays the dispute to the point when we want to consider
> making some of the bindings the default.  So it basically may solve a
> secondary problem -- how to conduct the experiment -- but not the main
> problem, which is whether and how to change bindings that existed in
> Emacs since about forever.

Forgive me for asking, maybe I'm missing something, but why should the
changes be made default?

Isn't the idea of providing a theme to change the behaviour that users
can enable or disable them easily, without the defaults having to change?

-- 
        Philip K.