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bug#15335: emacs -Q usability


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#15335: emacs -Q usability
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 20:07:41 +0200

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 14:21:39 +0100
> Cc: 15335@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
> 
> > Emacs -Q opening with scratch buffer is a mistake in most cases.
> >
> > Please make Emacs star as general purpose Editor, preferably with an empty 
> > buffer,
> > in text- or fundamental mode, where use may see it's input, being offered 
> > to save it etc.
> >
> > See also
> >
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18734848/choosing-an-all-purpose-editor/18735853
> 
> Do new users generally run "emacs -Q" though?  I would have assumed
> that they either just run "emacs" (probably from a menu somewhere), or
> "emacs <file>".

I think this horse has been beaten ad nauseam, and every time we
discussed it, we decided to keep the current behavior.  It's time to
put this to rest, IMO.





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