> From: Aidan Kehoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 20:25:20 +0200 > Cc: David Reitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > [...] Should one make people abandon Emacs that have been using it for 20 > > years, so that a newcomer will take an hour instead of half an hour > > before giving up on it? > > That's a false dichotomy; people who have been using some form of Emacs for > twenty years are informed enough to be able to configure their way around > the new defaults.
That depends on the amount of configuring around the defaults. If that amount gets too large, I, for one, would be very unpleased. I use Emacs for productivity, not for the dubious pleasure of wasting my time hunting down new defaults that make Emacs behave contrary to my expectations. Please also don't forget that quite a few veteran Emacs users routinely work with several different Emacs versions on different machines, so having too many differences between versions means those Emacs veterans will have hard time crafting customizations that work with all of the versions. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
