Re: How to poll the users

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 25.04.2020 19:15, Stefan Kangas wrote:

> I don't want to come across as negative towards your suggestion to
> create a poll, which I think is an excellent initiative.  But perhaps
> we could consider if there are more pressing or engaging questions to
> put before our users.  The tabs vs spaces debate feels a little bit
> dated, at least to me, and possibly not even that important since it's
> so easy to configure to your liking.

I don't know about that. It's definitely not urgent, but it's a fairly 
simple question (unlike some others we might ask), and I think the 
default behavior of mixing tabs with spaces constitutes a point of 
confusion for new Emacs users to this day.

> Perhaps we could even consider asking for their input on a number of
> important questions (not too many, say 4-5) where it would be
> interesting to get feedback.  Ideally we would try to choose questions
> strategically to inspire excitement for Emacs development.  (Tabs vs
> spaces could of course be one of them.)

I think we should only ask one question at a time. Creating multiple 
polls is an option, of course, but we could just as well wait a little 
between them.

And if indent-tabs-mode is not important in your opinion (it's just the 
first thing that came to my mind), do you want to come up with some 
other questions?