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Re: position on changing defaults?

From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: position on changing defaults?
Date: 2008年3月05日 10:55:34 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) 
Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:
> One reason to ask if there's a policy in this direction is that
> absolutely ANY change will make someone scream bloody murder. (just
> remember that there was resistance even to turning on
> global-font-lock-mode by default, which is something that the vast
> majority of users want). And people that oppose change tend to be
> extremely vocal.
You certainly sport a selective memory. The reason
global-font-lock-mode was not turned on by default was that there were
large performance problems in a number of cases. Those were addressed
by and by, and when global-font-lock-mode was in a shape where it would
not obliterate the usability of Emacs for large pretty standard use
cases, then it was finally adopted.
It would not have been an improvement if global-font-lock-mode would
have been made the default before this had been tackled satisfactorily.
Having the font-lock proponents actually work hard on making the code
acceptable to those who don't crave font-lock-mode that much but need
tolerable performance for large cases: this has been very important and
contributed to the quality of Emacs code.
We don't want to get into the situation where the editor gets bogged
down by a legacy of great half-baked and partly unmaintained features.
This is to some degree what I perceive as having happened with XEmacs.
Getting features to a full-quality state before enabling them is only
sane.
-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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