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Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 12:12:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu>
Subject: Re: URGENT: Anarchy & VOTING
To: gem-list@world.std.com
In-Reply-To: <9406020253.AA19135@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.87.9406021220.C11025-0100000@undergrad>
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On Thu, 2 Jun 1994, Warwick Allison wrote:
> Michel Forget wrote:
>
> >While reading the list, I have come to one definite conclusion. We need
> >to vote on the various proposals before the list degenerates into endless
> >arguing.
>
> Democracy without public access media is mob rule.
>
> ie. if people are not given a chance to express and justify their opinions,
> then voteing finds the most popular opinion rather than the most
> reasonable opinion.
>
> eg. My gut reaction to ^A would be `Get rid of it!', but after discussion,
> I see that the cute-but-bad Apple highlight handling (replace by key)
> is the problem, not ^A. In particular, Annius' comment of the Apple
> model being reasonable up until the highlight crosses lines illustrated
> this point.
>
> --
> Warwick
>
So, what you're saying is that Pradip should scrap his whole method for
handling blocks for the sake of saving ctrl-A?
That's rediculous.
You're sacrificing a whole section of the user interface and making him
scrap it and rewrite it just to save ctrl-A.
When the simple solution would be to change select-whole-document to
something else on the keyboard... end of story.