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Re: longtime user of emacs
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Po Lu |
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Re: longtime user of emacs |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Jul 2020 08:39:36 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
andres.ramirez <rrandresf@gmail.com> writes:
> This is just a curious question. How many years an emacs user needs
> for being considered a longtime emacs user?.
I don't think there ever was a standard for this, so we shouldn't really
compare people based on how 'long' they have used Emacs for.
> Other questions. Do You think vanilla emacs has good defaults? If
> your answer to the previous question is "No". What would You change on
> vanilla emacs defaults?
I think the Emacs defaults are reasonable. They might not be good, but
they have stood the test of time for nearly 4 (!) decades, and it
probably isn't a very good idea to change them.
There have been various platforms over the past 4 decades, most with
very different user interface 'standards' and trends. Emacs in one form
or the other has run on all of them, and has run in a consistent way.
I don't believe it's a very good idea to change that.
Also, here's some anecdotal experience:
Modern software changing every once in a while to fullfill trends is one
of the reasons many users use Emacs. If Emacs starts changing to
fullfill the latest UI trends, I'm reasonably sure many people would leave.
- Re: "Why is emacs so square?", Jeff Norden, 2020/07/13
- Re: "Why is emacs so square?", Jeff Norden, 2020/07/13
- longtime user of emacs (was: "Why is emacs so square?"), andres . ramirez, 2020/07/13
- Re: longtime user of emacs,
Po Lu <=
- Re: longtime user of emacs (was: "Why is emacs so square?"), Jeff Norden, 2020/07/14
- Re: longtime user of emacs (was: "Why is emacs so square?"), Ihor Radchenko, 2020/07/14
- Re: longtime user of emacs, Po Lu, 2020/07/15
- Re: longtime user of emacs, Ihor Radchenko, 2020/07/15
- Re: longtime user of emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/07/15
- Re: longtime user of emacs (was: "Why is emacs so square?"), andrés ramírez, 2020/07/14