Re: Representation of the Emacs userbase on emacs-devel

[Yuan Fu]

> On Sep 2, 2021, at 11:28 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> That's only true for changes of the default behavior, and key bindings
> are examples of such a change, at least the way they are proposed.
> There was talk about introducing a minor mode which would then be free
> to make controversial changes, including key bindings, but no one
> stepped forward to write such a mode.  Which I think is a pity, given
> how easy it should be to do that, and how many problems and
> frustrations it could potentially solve.

There can even be a new mode for each new version of Emacs. And I imagine a 
tutorial would just say “M-x emacs-28-defaults-mode RET to enable the sane 
defaults”. How do we decide what is turned on in that mode? If we know what to 
turn on, writing it is trivial, no?

Yuan