Re: change \C-m binding to newline-and-indent

[ Sorry, accident post ] Didier Verna writes: Colin> I see it the other way around. 99% of the time that you hit <return> Colin> when writing code, the next key that you type is <tab>. me> Right. The real question behind this has actually been underlying in me> several other threads: assuming that 99% of the population does THIS, me> should the default be THIS and not THAT? Or the other way around, if we me> have 1% doing THAT (which is the default), do we have the right to fuck me> them up? ... Personaly, I'm usually pissed off by all the backward compatibility that we're trying to maintain, so doing a radical change wouldn't bother me that much. However, there are cases (like this one) where I think it is a bad idea. Here we're not talking of rewriting a better API for such or such feature of XEmacs, we're talking of changing one of the _most basic_ thing that an editor is supposed to do, namely inserting a character from the keyboard, to something fancy. In that particular case, I don't think that 99% of the people doing something is a valid argument to change the default. What if the other 1% someday fall on a case where the fancy binding leads to an undesirable behavior? That's something that I don't think we can afford. IMHO, and this is valid for all the threads we've had on similar questions, the majority should _not_ win, if a _single_ person has to customize an option to actually make it simpler. Customize things to make them more clever, never simpler. -- / / _ _ Didier Verna http://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / E.N.S.T. INF C201.1 mailto:verna＠inf.enst.fr /_/ / /_/ / /__ / 46 rue Barrault Tel. (33) 01 45 81 73 46 75634 Paris cedex 13 Fax. (33) 01 45 81 31 19