Kaldrenon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jun 20, 9:28 am, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Kaldrenon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > I'm very, very new to emacs. I used it a little this past year in >> > college, but I didn't try at all to delve into its features. I'm >> > starting that process now, and frankly, the thought of it changing - >> > already- upsets me. I don't feel like the program ought to change in >> > order to accommodate me. >> >> Actually, the "E" in "Emacs" stands for "extensible". Part of the >> appeal of Emacs is that you can change it to accommodate you. > > Well put. Perhaps I should have said that I don't feel like the > program ought to change to "accommodate" -everybody-. >
The point is that the responsibility to customize is on the user. All the developers need to do is continue providing the most customizable piece of software around. If we place the responsiblity to customize on the developer, then he develops a piece of software customized for himself; that wouldn't be Emacs. Which brings me to another point: as someone already said, you could fork the code and make all these changes, but then it would be something else, it would stop being Emacs. And it would stop being cool. Joel -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109 A webpage of interest: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sylvester-response.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
