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Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages


From: Gregory Heytings
Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:45:09 +0000


[Why did you write your first mail off-list, your second one Cc'd to emacs-devel, and your third one Cc'd to help-gnu-emacs?]

When you install a package whose purpose is to change the user interface, you expect it will change the user interface, don't you? When you install an ad-blocker in your browser, you expect it will block ads, don't you?

Again, the browser is a different situation.


For most users, it is not. I guess you think the browser or GIMP are different situations, because you see them as mere tools, whereas you see Emacs as "more than a tool". That's not the case for most Emacs users, for them Emacs is just a tool. FWIW, when I open another editor, I see and use it as a mere tool for another task.


This kind of aggressive behaviour just makes harder because you don't know what is going on. This is how you confuse newcomers.


Regular users don't want to know what is going on, they don't care, and shouldn't have to care; for them an editor is just a tool for another task.



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