Re: why does M-w (kill-ring-save) hurt so bad?
* Michael Sperber:
| >>>>> "Olivier" == Olivier Galibert <galibert(a)pobox.com>
writes:
|
| Olivier> On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:24:01PM +0100, René Kyllingstad
| Olivier> wrote:
| >> It is mentioned in the NEWS file (Help->What's New in XEmacs, which is
| >> how I found it before), but it would help alot if it was also
| >> mentioned at the top in a seperate BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
| >> (shouting intentional) section, /and/ similarly in the release notes.
|
| Olivier> No, it shouldn't have happened, period. The change is
| Olivier> nonsensical in an X environment, so it should have been done in
| Olivier> a windows environment only. No dumbing down of the default
| Olivier> configuration of XEmacs, thank you.
|
| Having by chance been hit by this yesterday evening, I concur: it's a
| bug, and we should treat it as such.
So it's a bug for the X release. It should still be flagged as I suggested
for the win32 release, since it's a backwards incompatible change.
In /general/ I like changes of default behaviour if it benefits new users,
as it makes introducing new people to XEmacs easier.
-- René
ps: I'd also like more features to be turned on by default when installed,
such as savehist and recent-files, but I guess there are both technical and
social problems with this; it's just annoying seeing people going forever
without using such features because they didn't know they were there