From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:47:17 -0700 Message-ID: <200804041547.m34FlHEs011242@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207324191 24645 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2008 15:49:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 15:49:51 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 04 17:50:23 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JhoBK-0002i9-Qf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:50:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JhoAi-0006dJ-51 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:49:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JhoAd-0006bV-Jm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:49:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JhoAa-0006Wk-IK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:49:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JhoAa-0006WP-C4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:49:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JhoAZ-0001Lm-L0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:49:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166] helo=mx10.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JhoAY-0005L9-Po for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:49:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JhoAU-0001K8-TT for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:49:34 -0400 Original-Received: from sallyv1.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.109]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JhoAU-0001Eg-Dm for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:49:30 -0400 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1207928838.06509@MRSieerCUkGfzfVi1RBKcA Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv1.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m34FlHEs011242 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2008 08:47:18 -0700 (PDT) Mail-Followup-To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Reiner Steib's message of "Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:00:29 +0200") Original-Lines: 19 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:94349 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:21867 Archived-At: Reiner Steib writes: > Hi, > > when XEmacs is started with `--vanilla' or `-q', it displays an item > "Load init files" in the menu bar. The name of the command in XEmacs > is `load-user-init-file'. > > Maybe Emacs should do have something similar. I'm not sure about > where to add it. Maybe a menu entry in the Options menu and a tool bar > button? Why is this good? IMHO it's just bloat: if someone uses "emacs -q", it's quite intentional and probably knows enough about emacs to do M-x load-file ~/.emacs RET. emacs -q is not something done very often, wanting to load .emacs when using emacs -q is even less frequent. So why bother providing a special purpose facility for it?