From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal: emacs -Q option Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 09:54:33 +0200 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87wu6znx3a.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <87ad3y6l2a.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <9003-Thu05Feb2004211456+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1076140885 322 80.91.224.253 (7 Feb 2004 08:01:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 08:01:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 07 09:01:16 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ApNOu-0004N5-00 for ; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 09:01:16 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ApNOu-0003jn-00 for ; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 09:01:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ApNNO-0004A5-PB for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 02:59:42 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ApNMo-00048z-LK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 02:59:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ApNMG-0003fH-Sy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 02:59:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.4] (helo=spork.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ApNMG-0003cz-GM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 02:58:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-36-15-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.36.15]) by spork.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3D3911DC2C; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 23:58:27 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <9003-Thu05Feb2004211456+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 05 Feb 2004 21:14:56 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:19785 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19785 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > I think the proper places for this are the text printed by "emacs --help" > and cmdargs.texi. Of these, the latter one lags behind the code > because Emacs developers are not required to submit documentation > changes together with code changes. Usually, when a new Emacs > release is about to enter the pretest phase, we go through NEWS > entries and update the docs accordingly. > > As for the fact that emacs.c doesn't mention some of the new options, > it's probably a bug, unless, for some good reasons, we don't want to > advertise them. I looked more closely at available command line arguments and can't decide what to do with some of them because of their unclear status: what arguments are obsolete, what are not implemented, what are secret developers-only options, what are too platform-dependent and so shouldn't be known to users? --no-shared-memory, -nl (#ifdef HAVE_SHM) present in --help missing in cmdargs.texi --map-data, -map (#ifdef VMS) missing in --help, cmdargs.texi --no-loadup, -nl missing in --help, cmdargs.texi --vertical-scroll-bars, -vb present in --help missing in cmdargs.texi --horizontal-scroll-bars, -hb missing in --help, cmdargs.texi --line-spacing, -lsp present in --help missing in cmdargs.texi --smid missing in --help, cmdargs.texi -psn_ (#ifdef MAC_OSX) missing in --help, cmdargs.texi --name present in --help missing in cmdargs.texi, although documented in xresources.texi --xrm present in --help missing in cmdargs.texi, although documented in xresources.texi -- http://www.jurta.org/emacs/