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Subject: Re: Shortcuts file
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 14:40:00 BST
From: C.J.Ridd@computer-science.birmingham.ac.uk
Precedence: bulk
Ofir wrote:
[Evan Langlois wrote]
>>As to where to put it, no one has even agreed to the above. They are
>>still arguing about ^A and trying to vote on it. Damn stupid to vote
>>on ^A when you can configure it instead.
>
>It's much more stupid to tell people you are trying to work with towards
>agreement that they are stupid. The ^A vote IS needed, because there has
>been no agreement about the app-defs file, it may not get the 65% approval
>required. In which case we still need a standard. We (except for Tim
>Miller) are not arguing about ^A and this has not been under discussion for
>about a month.
Actually, Evan has a point. I took the ^A vote to mean 'do you want
select-all and unselect-all functions?', because of the potential vote
on the shortcuts file completely overruling the ^A vote results.
We ought to be very careful in the future about organising these
votes, in order to avoid these problems. I have a feeling this vote
was purely held to silence certain members of the list; I may be
wrong.
What we *should* be doing, IMHO, is proposing and voting for the
existence of a shortcut file or files, and only then discussing the
precise contents of it. The whole voting period should be much shorter
too, as this list is very active :-) Say two weeks per vote.
By the way, where does this 65% number come from?
--Chris
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