[919] in athena10
Re: emacs cosmetic changes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anders Kaseorg)
Thu Jan 22 19:50:37 2009
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:48:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
cc: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>, Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>,
debathena@mit.edu
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On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, andrew m. boardman wrote:
> For require-final-newline, though, its lack is clearly identified as a=20
> potential screw case for current users and the arguments for punting it=
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> seem dubious. Unlike other changes, though, it's not changing=20
> user-visible behavior to be Athena-like instead of Ubuntu-like, it's=20
> more that it's quietly removing a way for Athena users to hurt=20
> themselves.
1. Teaching users to rely on extra safety nets that we add is=20
counterproductive. They will get confused when they install Ubuntu on=20
their laptop and Emacs behaves differently.
2. This is a bug in tcsh, not Emacs. Did nobody think to report it to=20
tcsh upstream for ten years?
3. The default editor on Ubuntu is nano, anyway. Emacs is simply not a=20
user-friendly choice for a first editor, and it isn=E2=80=99t our job to tr=
y to=20
turn it into one.
Anders
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