Re: A new user perspective about "Changes for emacs 28"

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 11.09.2020 16:15, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>     > As I see almost everyone agrees that Emacs has best undo-redo mechanism
>     > that is out there, right?  I tend to agree with this.
>
>     Do you mean 'M-x undo'?
>
>     As you can see from the recent messages, a lot of users prefer undo-tree
>     or even undo-only+undo-redo rather than the default undo.
>
> One shouldn't take the very small amount of users that are on
> emacs-devel as a metric,

I don't. My observations usually come from outside of emacs mailing 
lists, but having such examples here is easier to refer to.

> there are plenty of users who prefer the
> default undo behaviour too.

I'm sure there are plenty of users who prefer either approach, as well 
as a significant fraction who got used to the current undo just because 
it's Emacs's default, and could have adapted to a different default just 
the same.

Only one of these approaches is familiar to non-Emacs users, however, 
and would make Emacs a bit more welcoming to beginners.