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Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:32:44 +0200
User-agent: 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




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