From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Deprecate _emacs on Windows Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:01:21 +0100 Message-ID: <87ei5yxwf2.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <0B6A6EC5FD8F46D697F914FB2F6D4304@us.oracle.com> <655D5DBB48F04F719130122440CDA29B@us.oracle.com> <87pqpi8qui.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300856522 20485 80.91.229.12 (23 Mar 2011 05:02:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:02:02 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 23 06:01:58 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2GCk-0005Z0-Bk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:01:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55303 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2GCj-0001VE-M6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:01:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51252 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2GCP-0001Tk-FS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:01:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2GCO-0000NY-9a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:01:37 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:52396) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2GCN-0000N5-VP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:01:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2GCL-0005Ns-O1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:01:33 +0100 Original-Received: from 9.red-79-158-173.staticip.rima-tde.net ([79.158.173.9]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:01:33 +0100 Original-Received: from ofv by 9.red-79-158-173.staticip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:01:33 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 9.red-79-158-173.staticip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eZkxEwKTjo8UfVfuuFaUawlXXs8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:137556 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: > I agree that it is harmless. But it is also cruft, and cleaning must > be done sooner or later, IMO. As I've said before, the worldwide set > of Windows users of Emacs 24+ and _emacs isn't likely to be big. > Forcing them to rename _emacs to .emacs (if they want to go forward to > Emacs 24+), and so allowing us to remove exceptional cases from our > code and documentation, is a net win. Just a minor note: you can't rename _emacs to .emacs with Windows Explorer, at least on XP.