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Re: Gitlab Migration
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Gitlab Migration |
Date: |
Fri, 03 Sep 2021 15:45:12 +0300 |
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 15:32:10 +0300
> Cc: philipk@posteo.net, danflscr@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, lokedhs@gmail.com,
> yantar92@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
>
> On 03.09.2021 15:27, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >>> There, you have already a list of options to include in a suitably
> >>> named "profile". Why not add that to Emacs right now?
> >> What would it be called?
> > I don't know, but I don't think the name is the main issue. The main
> > issue is to identify the settings many people would like to change,
> > then try to group them in some reasonable way.
>
> It *is* an issue.
It's an issue, but not the most important or urgent one.
> The problem with variables with indent-tabs-mode and
> require-final-newline is they affect Emacs's behavior in ways that
> aren't apparent to a new user, or to a beginner programmer. And then
> they can cause problems for the teammates who aren't even using Emacs.
>
> Having a profile unassumingly called "Dmitry Gutov's Preferences" (who
> would want to enable THAT, right?), which would need to be enabled to
> avoid these issues, is a usability problem.
I'd start by collecting the relevant settings. E.g., if those 4 are
the only ones, or close to that, then perhaps a single profile named
"convenience" or somesuch would be enough. But I suspect there are
many more, so we'd need to divide them into groups, and then name each
group accordingly.
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- Re: Gitlab Migration, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/03
- Re: Gitlab Migration, Philip Kaludercic, 2021/09/03
- Re: Gitlab Migration, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/09/03
- Re: Gitlab Migration, Philip Kaludercic, 2021/09/03
- Re: Gitlab Migration, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/09/03
- Re: Gitlab Migration, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/03
- Re: Gitlab Migration, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/09/03
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Eli Zaretskii <=
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- Re: Gitlab Migration, Philip Kaludercic, 2021/09/03
- Re: Gitlab Migration, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/09/03
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- Re: Gitlab Migration, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/09/03
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- Re: Gitlab Migration, Juri Linkov, 2021/09/03
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