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Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk
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Matt Armstrong |
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Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk |
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Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:17:38 -0800 |
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"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:
> Why is it always users who have to explain themselves and never the
> developers who change functionality that they don't even seem to use?
In abstract, there are many reasons for this classic pattern of
developer<->user interaction:
- The developers are trying to make the software better overall, and
this often requires change.
- Sometimes there are no remaining active developers on a project that
actually use a particular feature.
- The developers are addressing the requests of *other* users, and it
is not possible to make everybody perfectly happy.
- It is impossible to read minds, so developers must ask users what
they need to do and why.
- Users often don't understand the software as deeply as the developer,
so the developers ask for what the user wants to actually do, but not
necessarily the way the user wants the solution expressed.
- Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Gregory Heytings, 2021/02/09
- Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/09
- Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2021/02/10
- Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Tassilo Horn, 2021/02/10
- Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Jean Louis, 2021/02/10
- Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Alan Mackenzie, 2021/02/10
- Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/10
- Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, andrés ramírez, 2021/02/10
- RE: [External] : Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Drew Adams, 2021/02/10
- Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Jean Louis, 2021/02/11
- Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Matt Armstrong, 2021/02/10
- Re: Experimentally unbind M-o on the trunk, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/10
- Smarter M-x that filters on major-mode, Stefan Kangas, 2021/02/10
- Re: Smarter M-x that filters on major-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2021/02/10
- Re: Smarter M-x that filters on major-mode, Yuan Fu, 2021/02/11