Superficially, it sounds
like he's just lazy. But I often find myself in situations where
I'm debugging a problem for a client and I'm on someone else's
machine. I can't take the time to edit in all my customizations
into the client's account, and even if I could, he might not want
me to. So I have no choice but to just live with the default
emacs configuration. If the issue is whether or not menus are
enabled, I can live with or without them. But if the keystroke
assignments have changed, my fingers are constantly tripping over
each other, which is distracting enough that it makes it hard to
concentrate on debugging the problem I'm there to fix in the first
place. So maybe the objection isn't quite as stupid as you're
implying.
Mark
Rosenthal
mbr@arlsoft.com
On 10/4/2011 1:27 PM, S Boucher wrote:
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This is an invalid argument, --snip--
This reminds me of the time rms asked whether menus should be enabled by default.
One objection from a hacker - I won't say who he is - complained that it would require him to change his .emacs to disable the menubar. Understanding the stupidy of this argument is left as an exercise.
Thankfully, rms did the right thing and the menus are on by defaults... and I disable them in my .emacs :-)
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