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Re: line-move-visual
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Bastien |
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Re: line-move-visual |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:48:37 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> Bastien <address@hidden> writes:
>> IIRC we never had a vote about this issue - maybe it's time to have it.
>
> It's almost impossible to get a representative sample of Emacs users, so
> what would be the point?
The vote is a way to know the opinion of a subset of Emacs users.
Whether this subset is representative or not may be a good question,
but a poll can still be useful without an answer to this question.
> Emacs is not a democracy, although the maintainers generally pay a lot
> of attention to the opinions and arguments of others. In the face of
> contentious changes, it's the job of the maintainers to understand the
> arguments on both sides and make a judgement call as to what the best
> solution for the entire Emacs user base is.
Agreed. A vote is a tool to help maintainers pay attention.
> I guess if you think you have arguments that nobody has seen before, you
> could present them (it seems a bit unlikely though).
I didn't enter this discussion because basically my arguments were
already stated by others. A vote is also great for sparing the time of
everyone: express an opinion once and let X person vote for it without
the need to express their arguments for this opinion again and again.
Anyway.
I created a poll. The result are send by email to me. Would be better
to send the results to the maintainers, though - but it's just sort of a
proof of concept.
"Should line-move-visual default to nil or t?"
http://www.micropoll.com/akira/mpview/623312-182840
If people are interested in launching such a poll, please do so.
--
Bastien
- line-move-visual, Johan Myréen, 2009/07/09
- Re: line-move-visual, Bastien, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Miles Bader, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Scot Becker, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Lennart Borgman, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Bastien, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Scot Becker, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, joakim, 2009/07/10