Aucb.759
fa.editor-p
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:editor-people
Tue Mar 23 11:50:48 1982
Moratorium on statements about EMACS
>From Goldberg@RUTGERS Tue Mar 23 10:46:25 1982
It seems that any statement of the form "EMACS does X", where "X" can
be interpreted by someone as undesirable, will be followed up by at
least one message, and usually several, saying how EMACS can be reconfigured
to avoid the problem.  Taking note of this trend, I suggest that correspondents
on this mailing list adopt at least one, and maybe both, of the following
suggestions:

1.  THOU SHALT NOT make any negative comments about the operation or
       user interface of EMACS.  Like the Lord, EMACS appears in many
       forms.  The true form defies description in human terms.

2.  HONOR THY SENDER:  If someone took the time to analyze and describe
       a user interface issue, give this person the benefit of the doubt.
       Do not berate this person on the technicality that a completely
       extensible language has no inherent fixed properties.  Rather,
       consider the impact of the comment on the space of properties
       that one may want to choose as the "default" for a given system.

                                       Bob
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