SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes:
The basic question as Martin has raised it to me in conversation
over the phone, is why do all the defaults suck? `xemacs -vanilla'
stinks. If there is anyone who can stand editing in an `xemacs
-vanilla' environment for any time longer than to reproduce a bug
someone has reported, please speak up, otherwise let's have some
discussion on changing defaults around.
I think `xemacs -vanilla' is much better than it used to be a few
years ago. When adding new features I've always tried to make the
default behaviour the correct one, and add user-options only when
absolutely necessary.
Way too often in Emacs, the defaults are sucky, and one is supposed to
configure things to his liking. I believe in a harder alternative,
which is to make the defaults do the right thing whenever possible,
and *then* allow user-options to change this.
I've written about these things before.
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