[draxil]

emacs users who are hostile to you configuring things, aren't really getting the point IMO :)

[raverbashing]

The list of things emacs users don't get seems to get longer per day so I'm not surprised at the reaction OP got, just disappointed

(but I still think this is on nginx more than emacs - unless they really mean foo~ and not .foo~ )

[jlarocco]

> The list of things emacs users don't get seems to get...

There are a ton of Emacs users, and it's doesn't make much sense to talk about them as a group like that, no more than if I were to say, "The list of things Windows users don't get..."

[k_bx]

They are hostile to me proposing a better (IMO) default

[eej71]

It depends on what you mean by default and whose default.

You can change your own defaults quite easily!

Changing the default setup with emacs that has been shipping for > 30 years is tough.

Getting nginx to ignore a well established pattern by a well established editor seems equally sensible and perhaps more doable. Yes?

[k_bx]

By default I mean whatever you get by doing `sudo apt-get install emacs-nox`

I disagree about "tough". Emacs has changed for the better in new releases quite drastically in the last years in my experience.