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by wibblewobble125 922 days ago
I agree. I’ve been using Emacs for approaching 20 years. In the past few years when I upgrade I’m noticing the same thing. Some font faces have the wrong colors, in one case an actual function was removed and Emacs wouldn’t start, some commands prompt slightly differently. I like to point at Emacs as being like Linux, that it’s a stable platform I can rely on, but do have to admit that more recently I don’t want to upgrade for fear of breakage.

Hell, I’m still on a version of magit from 2014 because they wouldn’t stop moving things around despite it being, in my opinion, done. In all other software in my life I have to put up with things constantly changing for silly reasons, Emacs is the one piece of software where I’m in control.

I fully empathize with the poster being infuriated with changing behavior. I might not agree with the way it’s being expressed. It’s sort of “et tu, Emacs?”