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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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