From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 15335@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15335: emacs -Q usability
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 20:07:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835zh2t5aq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sgk6gvfg.fsf@marxist.se> (message from Stefan Kangas on Thu, 23 Jan 2020 14:21:39 +0100)
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-23 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-11 8:50 bug#15335: emacs -Q usability Andreas Röhler
2013-09-11 14:17 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-11 14:57 ` Andreas Röhler
2020-01-23 13:21 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-23 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-08-12 22:44 ` Stefan Kangas
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