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Re: Confused by y-or-n-p
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Confused by y-or-n-p |
Date: |
Wed, 06 Jan 2021 05:35:42 +0200 |
> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:14:21 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org>
> cc: rms@gnu.org, rudalics@gmx.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net
>
> > You are describing something that is already happening. In the vast
> > majority of cases new features don't become the default, they are
> > introduced as opt-in features and announced in NEWS. We consider making
> > them the default after several releases, if and when people start asking
> > us to enable a feature by default.
>
> I agree with you that this is already happening in the vast majority of
> cases, so why would it be problematic to make this a rule, that in
> principle any change to Emacs' behavior should provide a way to re-enable
> the old behavior?
Because the fact it's already happening means we already have the
necessary rules, and adding more rules that restrict how we develop
Emacs is an unnecessary overhead.
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