Re: message-mode is now default?

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,
>>     address@hidden
>> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:11:05 +0900
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> 
>>  > There are quite a few people who use the development branch for their
>>  > day-to-day work.  Breaking their MUA, which is by far the most
>>  > frequently used Emacs application, should not be done easily.
>> 
>> Changing the default doesn't break Mail mode at all!
>> 
>> What it does is require one who wants to use Mail mode in the
>> customary way to put his cursor at the end of the following sexp and
>> type C-x C-e:
>
> To do that, one needs to know that the defaults have changed.  Not
> everybody examines all the change logs each time she syncs with the
> repository.

I find it somewhat amusing that people act all surprised when they
update daily from the Emacs trunk and suddenly something changes.
That's the whole point of frequent trunk synchronizations, isn't it?

-- 
David Kastrup