Re: Stepping Back: A Wealth Of Completion systems Re: [ELPA] New package: vertico

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 17:55:23 +0200
> Cc: philipk@posteo.net, dgutov@yandex.ru,
>  Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > "You are in the minority" is an argument that adds nothing to the
> > point your are trying to make, so my advice is not to use it in this
> > kind of discussion.
> 
> You presented the fact that you don't do a certain thing as something
> that was of interest to the discussion.  Then certainly pointing out
> that that that's not the common use case is also of interest.

"Of interest" and "helps the discussion" aren't necessarily the same
thing.

The "majority" argument sounds like "there's your opinion and there's
mine, but mine is more important".  That is never helpful.