Re: Suggested experimental test

[Philip Kaludercic]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> On 23.03.2021 14:41, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> 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.

You mean new default commands, right?

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

Yes, this was my understanding too. Ideally, the splash screen could
instruct new users how to change the UX theme, making it easier to get
comfortable.

-- 
        Philip K.