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: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:46:22 -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> <87llncn0nx.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1076406620 25747 80.91.224.253 (10 Feb 2004 09:50:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:50:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 10 10:50:14 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 1AqUX0-0002ho-00 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:50:14 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AqUX0-00024a-00 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:50:14 +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 1AqUWp-0006Go-DG for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:50:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AqUW5-0006Fh-A8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:49:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AqUVY-00065R-Oi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:49:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AqUVY-00065E-3Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:48:44 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AqUTG-00015W-3f; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:46:22 -0500 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-reply-to: <87llncn0nx.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Mon, 09 Feb 2004 09:59:29 +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:19849 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19849 The --help message is needed for users to quickly look at all options before starting Emacs, and fastest way to show it to the user is as a static text. After Emacs is started the user can consult the Emacs manual for full descriptions of all options. Please let's not spend our time thinking about dynamic options lists in Emacs. It simply isn't worth the time we'd spend on the discussion, let alone the time to implement it or to maintain it in the future.