From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs --pristine --> -vanilla Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:19:17 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20021205221917.GB426@gnu.org> References: <873cpcnqep.fsf@computer.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039128497 15884 80.91.224.249 (5 Dec 2002 22:48:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 22:48:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18K4mw-00046v-00 for ; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 23:48:10 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18K4vH-0007h0-00 for ; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 23:56:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18K4e9-0008Uk-00; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 17:39:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18K4df-0008TH-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 17:38:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18K4d8-0008Q7-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 17:38:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18K4d8-0008Pr-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 17:38:02 -0500 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18K4Kz-0000Lh-00; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 17:19:17 -0500 Original-To: "D. Goel" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <873cpcnqep.fsf@computer.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9909 On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:48:14PM -0500, D. Goel wrote: > Can we either change this to -vanilla, or else alias -vanilla to > --pristine? IMO, --pristine is a much better name, so at most it should be an alias. > then we should have a -vanilla that is exactly -q -no-site-file Why is it important that it be _exactly_ -q -no-site-file? My understanding is that --pristine actually does a bit more, which actually makes it better than -q -no-site-file for what I see as the intended purpose (`what do you tell people to use when they report a bug'). -Miles -- [|nurgle|] ddt- demonic? so quake will have an evil kinda setting? one that will make every christian in the world foamm at the mouth? [iddt] nurg, that's the goal