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> “Oh my gosh, I’ll have to press 1 extra key now ... " is a genuine usability tragedy for folks who have 25+ years of muscle memory involved. There are no sma
by sgbeal 3y ago
> “Oh my gosh, I’ll have to press 1 extra key now ... "
is a genuine usability tragedy for folks who have 25+ years of muscle memory involved. There are no small number of emacs users, myself included, who fall into that category.
> "... this project is doomed!”
obviously it's not quite that bad, but any change to long-standing muscle memory is going to send countless users down a rabbit hole looking to undo that change.
- domq 3y agoThat is a correct and fair assessment of the impact, assuming the change lands in a release as-is (which apparently it won't: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-12/msg00205.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-12/msg00... )