Tom Gillespie <tgb...@gmail.com> writes:

> Would it help if major releases maintained a mini-config that if added
> to init.el would allow users to retain old behavior? That way they
> wouldn't have to read the NEWS but could just add the relevant lines,
> or maybe even just call the org-old-default-behavior-9.1 or
> org-old-default-behavior-9.4. The workflow during development would be
> to account for any change to defaults in those functions. Thoughts?
> Tom

This would ease the pain temporarily but not fix the problem.

The next time you sit down with a colleague to show org-mode you’ll be
searching in your config for the change to go back to the old default.

The problem is that you have to do stuff after an update to undo
breakage. This is a conservative stance — I have gotten more
conservative in what I want from my software over the years. I want to
learn tools that just keep working because I can only become really good
in those. It’s only there that investing much time into learning them
actually pays off.

Best wishes,
Arne
-- 
Unpolitisch sein
heißt politisch sein
ohne es zu merken

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