Juanma Barranquero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7/7/05, Edward O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I love how Emacs is a consistent environment across the various >> operating systems it runs on, and would much prefer it for the >> default Dired behavior to continue to be the same across all >> supported systems. > > That's the eternal tension between making things "right" and making > them "easy". Using the Windows defaults on Windows would be more > helpful to new users; I'd say it makes sense to lean towards the > newbie's side, if any.
That's one reason why we need custom themes. That's where system-convention-friendly settings should be collected, not all across the board. This would resolve the tensions then. That way, a person coming from a Unix background can with one command let his Windows Emacs behave like he is accustomed to. Of course, settings that are _necessary_ on a given platform don't belong into a theme. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
