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Re: [PATCH] Remove special requirement to disable startup message.
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Mark Oteiza |
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Re: [PATCH] Remove special requirement to disable startup message. |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Dec 2015 20:49:35 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.24+44 (9480a363a68a) (2015-08-30) |
On 22/12/15 at 09:27pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 14:09:49 -0500
> > From: Mark Oteiza <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> >
> > > . make sure display-startup-echo-area-message cannot be so easily
> > > redefined or advised (up to some practical limit)
> > >
> > > . allow the value to be a list of strings, each one a user name, and
> > > prevent the echo-area message from being displayed if the user
> > > name is one of these strings -- this should take care of the use
> > > case in bug#12370
> > >
> > > Would you like to work on these enhancements?
> >
> > Thanks but no thanks. I'm not interested in obfuscating the
> > customization of Emacs
>
> Overriding internal functions is hardly customization. But anyway,
> that's the 1st item.
What would you call it?
> What about the second? Doing that would fix the use case reported in
> bug#12370, without obfuscating anything else.
I suppose I'd be amenable letting the value be a regex, but I doubt
anyone here will agree to it! ;)
Joke aside, to do so would be enhancing that which I'm arguing is
a misfeature, so nope. Sorry.
- Re: [PATCH] Remove special requirement to disable startup message., (continued)
Re: [PATCH] Remove special requirement to disable startup message., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/20