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Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs |
Date: |
Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:32:44 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
dhruva <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi,
> These are my personal views with my current/limited understanding of
> the whole topic.The simplest way to handle all camps is to show the
> splash screen is handle the following possibilities:
>
> 1. if the user does not have a dot emacs (here we assume a seasoned
> emacs user will have a dot emacs).
> 2. If the user has a dot emacs interpret it:
> a. If there is an explicit statement to hide the startup splash screen,
> honor it.
> b. Check the time stamp of the dot emacs with the emacs executable, if
> emacs executable is newer, show the splash screen (with an option to
> disable it in the main screen)
> c. If there is way to store the dot emacs compatibility by
> storing versions
> in a list, we could check if the current version of emacs is
> newer than
> the one for which dot emacs was written. Show the splash screen and
> an option to disable by adding the current version into the
> list. The list
> can be similar to 'custom-set-variables' /'custom-set-faces'.
No, that is nonsense. We don't want Emacs to behave unpredictable:
annoy the user for some time and then suddenly stop without the user
being able to figure out what he changed.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, (continued)
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/14
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, David Kastrup, 2007/09/14
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/14
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, David Kastrup, 2007/09/15
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/15
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, dhruva, 2007/09/16
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, dhruva, 2007/09/16
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, David Kastrup, 2007/09/16
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Robert J. Chassell, 2007/09/16
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Juri Linkov, 2007/09/19
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, David Kastrup, 2007/09/19
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Glenn Morris, 2007/09/19
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Juri Linkov, 2007/09/20
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, David Kastrup, 2007/09/20
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Glenn Morris, 2007/09/20
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/21