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Re: Confused by y-or-n-p
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Confused by y-or-n-p |
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Sun, 03 Jan 2021 01:06:18 -0500 |
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> > I think reversing the default would be less than optimal for two
> > reasons: 1) The new behaviour is in Emacs 27, and flopping back to the
> > Emacs 26 behaviour just sounds confusing
> See - that's the problem with saying that Emacs
> can just go ahead and change stuff, because we
> can always backtrack later.
Your response is stated in a somewhat flip tone, but its point is
valid. As you've stated, there is a lot of resistance to changing
back.
The dynamic that results is this:
* A few people decide to make a UI change, which many have not noticed.
* Some people eventually notice it in master, or in a release, and maybe
people start objecting.
* At that point there is resistance to changing back.
The end result is a tendency to make changes because a few people
are in favor of them, and then it is hard to avoid them.
Here is how I think it should work.
* A few people decide to make a UI change, which many have not noticed.
* Someone points out that such a change should be discussed on
emacs-devel. So they do that, before installation.
* If some are opposed, they install the feature with a variable to
enable it, disabled by default.
* Some time later -- it need not be soon -- poll the users and see who
likes it _and why_. Maybe change the default.
This will (1) eliminate the bad dynamic, (2) result in installing
these features quickly but with a variable to enable, and (3) in a
reasonable period adopt a default based on knowing who likes the
feature.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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