Re: "Auto-righteousness" [was: PSGML mode should not override 'M-BS'.]

Stephen> Patches): Daniel> The new PSGML mode has, in it's keymap, one stunningly Daniel> counter-intuitive binding[1]. Stephen> PSGML does this a lot, IMHO, but this one deserves Stephen> "stunningly". The new PCL-CVS did that too. I hate it when key-bindings are changed in mature soaftware packages. Daniel> The Sequence Meta-BackSpace is bound to Daniel> `sgml-mark-current-element', rather than the standard Daniel> `backward-kill-word'. This caused me some pain until I Daniel> went and fixed it. Stephen> ... and submitted a patch so the rest of us can benefit. Stephen> Thanks! Stephen> Sill, we need to have a way to deal with these things in Stephen> a common way. I really dislike changing the upstream I submitted a bug report for PCL-CVS "upstream" and haven't heard back. Stephen> source for anything but outright bugs that disable Stephen> functionality or cause data loss. Just as we have Stephen> "auto-autoloads" for every package, we ought to have an Stephen> "auto-righteousness" mechanism that leaves the upstream Stephen> package's design idiocies in place and corrects them in a Stephen> documented way. Stephen> In this case I expect near-unanimity, but in many cases Stephen> the line between genius and idiocy is rather debatable. Stephen> -- Stephen> University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Stephen> Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 Stephen> _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ Stephen> What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."