From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Deprecate _emacs on Windows Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:53:51 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1E772BEF5AE64D5381C3EBAAAFADE343@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299970465 17075 80.91.229.12 (12 Mar 2011 22:54:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:54:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , Emacs developers To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 12 23:54:21 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 1PyXhT-0002dR-Rq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:54:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57882 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PyXhT-0006a1-7S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:54:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35086 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PyXhN-0006Zd-Mh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:54:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PyXhM-00009c-LR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:54:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:35401) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PyXhM-00009I-H6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:54:12 -0500 Original-Received: by eyh6 with SMTP id 6so1290282eyh.0 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:54:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=kstwawdKg9Fzd4AfIDAjCxpQbGwGY07Y8FtHQ1cUBb8=; b=AG4CsE1L+zRYxYkHCoadLabWmEKjkWD/cHYXcsxP0sGuBTe2Hu7HlErUuvS0Uwysqp nLvEgPWeCQrKBnyDkHqm7SJ6/BeV3+lIOTfiWMhrZLRcWpsCOvHXTuEykAcQ1u3GbbzM YNp7mKV3onFVtOH55wXZ4rAElViaYb/9YJUFk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=GOL6l923+VnYM6h5V8zA0SnTWyhkcZE3bNg6OFsZSqjU8fWoFfYOnJXseOy+ZlNEYp aCYpEFOZCGh1NHSiPSr/og87P140QD8Dsj5qPSD6P42Fii14Zf5MZtZEWcXRB9hTXyaN x1K4S3fu7n2vm4NUWiwaJtf83AiHw2d/7OlLM= Original-Received: by 10.213.10.70 with SMTP id o6mr180767ebo.22.1299970451236; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:54:11 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.213.27.136 with HTTP; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:53:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1E772BEF5AE64D5381C3EBAAAFADE343@us.oracle.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.215.169 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:137176 Archived-At: On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Drew Adams wrote: >> > Opinions? >> >> A good simplification. > > Another opinion: a bad idea. =C2=A0(See bug #8220 thread.) > > I'd propose instead that all platforms treat `_emacs' as a legitimate def= ault > init-file name (in addition to `.emacs'). > > No doubt a minority of one, but that's my opinion anyway. Why?