Title text: There are probably children out there holding down spacebar to stay warm in the winter! YOUR UPDATE MURDERS CHILDREN.

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[Changelog for version 10.17 of a piece of software.]

One change listed: “The CPU no longer overheats when you hold down the spacebar”
Comments: LongtimeUser4 writes: This update broke my workflow! My control key is hard to reach, so I hold spacebar instead, and I configured Emacs to interpret a rapid temperature rise as “control”.
Admin writes: That’s horrifying.
LongtimeUser4 writes: Look, my setup works for me. Just add an option to reenable spacebar heating.

Every change breaks someone’s workflow.

  • tal
    8•11 months ago

    Emacs itself is actually impressively good at not breaking workflows, given how configurable the package is.

    • SkyeEnglish
      21•11 months ago

      Other software: Don’t like this change? Go fork yourself.

      Open Source software: Don’t like this change? Go fork it yourself.

      Emacs: What do you mean you don’t like this change? You wrote the Elisp for the package yourself.