From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs -Q not documented Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 23:02:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20050329.162832.71106586.wl@gnu.org> <20050402.084718.31638992.wl@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112756669 1257 80.91.229.2 (6 Apr 2005 03:04:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 03:04:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 06 05:04:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJ0q3-0002Fo-TH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 05:04:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJ0P4-0004Zh-Us for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:36:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DJ0Mf-0003t4-AA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:33:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJ0Me-0003sE-Kt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:33:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DJ0ox-0005Ch-Bb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2005 23:03:11 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DJ0oT-0001Xc-Cc; Tue, 05 Apr 2005 23:02:41 -0400 Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-reply-to: (storm@cua.dk) 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:35607 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35607 It is intended to be an option turn off all "extra features". On what criterion are these features "extra"? But most important, running emacs -Q when debugging redisplay problems makes it much easier to know what's going on. Why does the blinking cursor relate to this? Just because we cannot find a long name for it -- that's silly, IMO! The difficulty in finding a long name for it reflected a lack of apparent coherence of the functionality of the option. Nobody could see what it was good for. That is why I thought of removing it or changing it.