Re: Suggested experimental test

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>,  larsi@gnus.org,  gregory@heytings.org,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org,  stefankangas@gmail.com,  dgutov@yandex.ru
> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 13:28:19 +0100
> 
> > 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?

The context was the discussion of changes in key bindings.  If they
are not changed by default, how else can such a change be made?

> 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?

The theme suggestion was a proposal to conduct an experiment without
interfering with those who want no part in the experiment.  But
eventually, the intent is to change the default behavior, because
rebinding any key to any command is already possible, and nothing
prevents users from doing that in their private init files.  So having
a non-default theme that makes a bunch of such rebindings makes little
sense to me.