LENNART BORGMAN schrieb: > Interesting. I can see your point. However do you use w32? Do you not find it > disturbing then that the ordering of files are different in Emacs than > outside Emacs on w32? > Maybe you never leave Emacs? But for newbies who are used to other apps under > w32, would it not be easier for them to adopt to Emacs if the default > ordering was the same as for other apps? And those of us (I know now) who can > change it, can't we just do that?
I use Emacs on OSX, Windows, and Slackware. I would like it to be as similar as possible. That being said, I understand the need to cater for newbies, and I would not mind people adding an option or minor mode (or theme) to give Unix, Windows, OSX, or any other system's defaults -- as long as I can use those defaults on all the systems I use. If we start using the current OS to determine defaults, I will have to find all these variables myself is a slow process of getting used to the new Emacs and customizing it. If instead of using a single variable such as window-system we used another variable such as window-system-preference that defaults to window-system, then I could set one variable to get all the defaults right. custom-themes will not make this job easier, but added functionality that nobody needs makes the coding and testing very tricky. But that's something I said years ago... eg. here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/7002 Alex. -- http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/ _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
