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RE: position on changing defaults?


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: position on changing defaults?
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 07:34:06 -0800

> > Here are some examples of changes that could be made:
> > - transient-mark, selection with Shift-arrow keys
> >
> > - show-paren-mode on by default
> > - iswitchb-mode on by default
> > - bind ibuffer to C-x C-b
> > - hide-ifdef-mode on by default for C/C++/objc
> > - flyspell-mode on by default for text-mode
> 
> I think most of those are fairly innocuous, but iswitchb-mode 
> is not --
> it changes a familiar and simple interface to something radically
> different that will very likely confuse newcomers and annoy 
> old-timers.
> Making that the default would be a mistake.

So are we discussing these now? Dan said no - and I agree.

If we were discussing them, then my vote would be `no' to iswitchb-mode and
ibuffer as C-x C-b.





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