Re: Please stop proposing changes in defaults!

[Juri Linkov]

> In the past week we have seen two more proposals to change Emacs
> defaults: one about C-h in isearch, and one about Delete Selection
> mode.
>
> These proposals lead to big discussions and do not really advance
> Emacs.  Please stop proposing such changes, and work instead
> on implementing new capabilities.

I think these discussions are very important to advance Emacs because
when people are not happy with some Emacs behavior, such open discussions
often help to achieve a consensus that satisfies everyone.

This is important to make Emacs attractive to more programmers.
I was shocked today when I observed as an unskilled novice programmer
wrote a small library at high speed using an IDE.  I'm usually very fast
at using a large set of Emacs commands, but could hardly achieve this
performance because Emacs lacks many useful IDE features that make
programmers more productive.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/