RE: [External] : Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages

[Drew Adams]

> 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.

Apologies for chiming in here without having
read the context, and for responding to this
out of context.

I would say that such "regular users" aren't
what Emacs is about, and that regular (i.e.,
ordinary) Emacs users are, quite a bit,
interested in what is going on, to varying
degrees.  And with increasing degree as Emacs
becomes more a part of them.

Emacs, especially because of (1) Emacs Lisp
and (2) free software (source code, user
participation in development), blurs, and
can erase, the boundary between ordinary user
and hard-core Emacs developer.

Yes, for many Emacs users "an editor is just
a tool for another task" perhaps.  But for
many Emacs users - and "Emacs user" in its
real potential, that use-for-other-tasks is
not separate from knowing what's going on.

IOW, the "regular editor user" stereotype
doesn't really fit "Emacs user", even if
many Emacs users might start out looking
at Emacs as a regular editor and acting,
themselves, as regular users.