Re: Suggested experimental test

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 23.03.2021 14:41, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > 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.

It has another goal as well: to have bindings changed in a logical and 
consistent fashion.

Having find-file on both 'C-x C-f' and 'C-o' would make little sense to 
me, for example.

> 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.

I think the above is more important than the goal of making it a default 
(which might or might not happen in 10 years or so, if we end up 
reaching some critical mass of users who dislike Emacs's historical 
bindings).

But even while the alternative keybindings theme is not the default, we 
would maintain it and keep it usable. Whenever we add something to the 
default set, we would consider adding a corresponding binding to that 
other theme, etc.

Having an alternative, well-considered set of bindings which new user 
can just toggle on and get comfortable should be valuable.