From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove special requirement to disable startup message. Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 05:45:50 +0200 Message-ID: <83io3oo6fl.fsf@gnu.org> References: <878u4qdpd4.fsf@udel.edu> <83si2xt967.fsf@gnu.org> <20151222190949.GB5310@holos> <83zix2p9lo.fsf@gnu.org> <20151224014935.GA23026@holos> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450928735 29663 80.91.229.3 (24 Dec 2015 03:45:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 03:45:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mark Oteiza Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 24 04:45:30 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aBwqH-0005OR-Sx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 04:45:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58772 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBwqH-0001Zw-8g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 22:45:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38875) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBwq4-0001Zg-BL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 22:45:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBwq0-00058x-Ax for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 22:45:16 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41138) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBwq0-00058s-7B; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 22:45:12 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2802 helo=HOME-C4E4A596F7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aBwpz-0003qb-FT; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 22:45:11 -0500 In-reply-to: <20151224014935.GA23026@holos> (message from Mark Oteiza on Wed, 23 Dec 2015 20:49:35 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:196751 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 20:49:35 -0500 > From: Mark Oteiza > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > What about the second? Doing that would fix the use case reported in > > bug#12370, without obfuscating anything else. > > I suppose I'd be amenable letting the value be a regex, but I doubt > anyone here will agree to it! ;) No, not a regexp. It would be easy to come up with a regexp that disables this for any user. I meant a list of constant strings. > Joke aside, to do so would be enhancing that which I'm arguing is > a misfeature, so nope. Sorry. Well, I think you understand by now that some of us think it's a feature.