From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal: emacs -Q option Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 04:38:54 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87ad3y6l2a.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <9003-Thu05Feb2004211456+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <87wu6znx3a.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87wu6yujeo.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1076319880 5547 80.91.224.253 (9 Feb 2004 09:44:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:44:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 09 10:44:36 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 1Aq7y0-0000Tx-00 for ; Mon, 09 Feb 2004 10:44:36 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Aq7y0-0007ci-00 for ; Mon, 09 Feb 2004 10:44:36 +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 1Aq7xs-0001sY-VF for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2004 04:44:28 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Aq7vD-0000xd-U6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2004 04:41:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Aq7uf-0000nk-5a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2004 04:41:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Aq7ue-0000nY-T2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2004 04:41:08 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1Aq7sU-0005cy-Pt; Mon, 09 Feb 2004 04:38:54 -0500 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-reply-to: <87wu6yujeo.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Sun, 08 Feb 2004 09:19:19 +0200) 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:19823 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19823 > This said, I really think the --help text should be generated more > dynamically to match the exact set of args accepted by the executed Emacs. There is one disadvantage to dynamically generated option list: it will require to start Emacs completely to generate correct option list. I don't think the feature is worth that disadvantage. Let's work on something else instead.