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RE: Deprecate _emacs on Windows
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: Deprecate _emacs on Windows |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:38:32 -0700 |
Come on. This is getting silly. Now there is a _warning_ when you start Emacs
with an init file named `_emacs'. A ***WARNING***? You have got to be kidding.
Ridiculous.
No doubt due to a pampered American generation or two having been brought up
with extreme protection, from crash helmets for 3-year-old tricyclists to...
what's next? Disclaimers that alphabet soup might accidentally spell out
offensive words?
This phenomenon is a by-product of a unique civil law system gone
litigation-crazy. And the influence extends beyond Amerika, unfortunately.
People everywhere come to think it's only natural to **SCREAM ALARMIST
WARNINGS** at users about the slightest potential boo-boo.
It's one thing for some company to issue such silly warnings to avoid possible
lawsuits; it's another thing for everyone and her brother to act likewise for no
real reason other than habit.
Emacs need not fear a lawsuit in this case - and its users deserve better than
being beat over the head with such silliness. When pseudo-warnings abound about
anything and everything, any real warnings lose their significance.
- Deprecate _emacs on Windows, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/03/12
- Re: Deprecate _emacs on Windows, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/12
- Re: Deprecate _emacs on Windows, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/03/12
- RE: Deprecate _emacs on Windows,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: Deprecate _emacs on Windows, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/03/22
- RE: Deprecate _emacs on Windows, Drew Adams, 2011/03/22
- Re: Deprecate _emacs on Windows, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/03/22
- RE: Deprecate _emacs on Windows, Drew Adams, 2011/03/22
- Re: Deprecate _emacs on Windows, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/03/22
- Re: Deprecate _emacs on Windows, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/03/22
- Re: Deprecate _emacs on Windows, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/03/24
- Re: Deprecate _emacs on Windows, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/03/24
- RE: Deprecate _emacs on Windows, Drew Adams, 2011/03/22
- Re: Deprecate _emacs on Windows, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/03/22