Re: Stop fiddling with my preferences

[Sebastian Wiesner]

Am 23.11.2014 um 18:25 schrieb Fabrice Popineau <address@hidden>:
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
>> 
>>> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 16:35:37 +0100 (CET)
>>> From: Roland Lutz <rlutz-ml <at> hedmen.org>
>>> 
>>> For the past few months, however, each time I upgraded to a new version of 
>>> Emacs, something in the behavior changed.
>> 
>> The time between Emacs releases is not measured in months,
>> unfortunately, but in years.
>> 
>>> I had to figure out each time what it was that caused the change and
>>> how to compensate for it.  This usually took me an hour or more
>>> since it isn't easily documented and most solutions suggested on the
>>> web have unwanted side-effects.
>> 
>> Changes in user-visible behavior are documented in etc/NEWS, together
>> with the description of how to get back old behavior.  If you find
>> some change that isn't documented like that, please report that as a
>> bug.
>> 
>>> This sort of behavior changes is common among browsers and proprietary 
>>> operating systems, but does this make it appropriate for Emacs?  One of 
>>> the reasons I'm using mature software is exactly that I *don't* have to be 
>>> worried with each new version that ESC won't stop playing animated GIFs 
>>> any more, etc.
>> 
>> We change user-visible behavior in response to user demand, not
>> because Emacs is immature.  User demands and expectations change with
>> time, and Emacs cannot stay with old defaults forever.
>> 
>>> How about a command like (use-defaults VERSION)?
>> 
>> From the menu bar, click Options->Customize Emacs->New Options, and
>> you will be able to see all the options that were added or changed
>> since some Emacs version.
> 
> Nice command, but fails for me right now with
> 
> Wrong type argument: stringp, (flycheck . "0.16")

This was an issue in Flycheck, caused by faulty keyword arguments to some 
`defcustom' definitions.  I've fixed it in the latest master.  Please update 
Flycheck.

I am sorry for the inconvenience this issue caused.