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> Imagine if your editor changed its key bindings, or renamed features with each minor update? I honestly wish my editor did. Emacs very deliberately does not
by jamienicol 5y ago
> Imagine if your editor changed its key bindings, or renamed features with each minor update?
I honestly wish my editor did. Emacs very deliberately does not do such things, and the result is a complete mess of weird keybindings, and many duplicated commands and modes which are just slightly different to each other. It's so scared of disrupting an existing user's workflow that the product as a whole definitely suffers.
- account42 5y agoThe solution is to change the default keybindings for new users (bonus if there is an option to get the old presets for new installs) while not messing with the setup for existing users and let them change their settings when *they* want to.