Re: How are the defaults chosen?

[Richard Stallman]

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To understand the defaults, you need to keep in mind the history, both
that of implementing various features, and that of key bindings.

It is easy to add a feature, much harder to change the default.

It is easy to add a command, hard to find a short key binding for it.


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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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