Re: A modern-mode?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 16.09.2020 11:58, Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions. 
wrote:

> The problem is that Emacs developers would have to agree on what that 
> set of "more modern / friendly defaults" is, which is unlikely to 
> happen. Again, different people have (very!) different ideas of what 
> "modern / friendly" is.

Cue several more weeks of discussions.

> A few examples, in the defaults you suggested:
>
> - fido-mode: in another thread Eli explained that in his opinion 
> icomplete's behavior is not intuitive enough for newcomers, and I (and 
> probably others) agree with what he said

It's more intuitive than the absence of any completion hints, which is 
the current default.

We can swap it for a different system when one is available.

> - global-auto-revert-mode: I would strongly object to this, having your 
> editor doing something without asking you for a confirmation is not 
> something many newcomers would find intuitive

It's a feature of many other "modern" editors.