Re: Recentish C-s M-y change

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 05:44:38 -0500
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net
> 
> why are these things changed without doing some rudimentary query of
> users?

It is unreasonable to expect us to conduct a user survey before every
behavior change.  It would make an impossible obstacle to any such
development in Emacs.  We also don't have any practical way of asking
a large sample of typical users and getting answers quickly.

We trust our developers that they keep the UX aspects in mind, and
bring issues to discussions here when they see the need.  Sometimes a
developer might think a change in behavior is a no-brainer, whereas in
fact it isn't; in that case complaining about the problematic change
is exactly the right way of fixing the problem, better later than
never.

So I suggest that we focus on fixing the change so it leaves everyone
happy, instead of developing impractical expectations from the process
of Emacs development.