Re: Changes for emacs 28

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Come to think of it, this is a bit of a counter argument against my
  > proposal: if we accept new defaults we must be ready to run Emacs -Q's
  > that have them.  If the new defaults are to include, say, vim-like
  > keybindings (ugh!), then maintainers are going to have lots of pain.  

  > This was a bit of an extreme example, but I guess what I'm saying is
  > that we should still criteriously choose new defaults.

I agree, the changes in defaults must not be drastic.
But we might still find it useful to be able to specify
the defaults from version N if we don't like the subsequent changes.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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