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: [PATCH] Remove special requirement to disable startup message. Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 00:13:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <878u4qdpd4.fsf@udel.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450588451 11904 80.91.229.3 (20 Dec 2015 05:14:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 05:14:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mark Oteiza Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 20 06:14:02 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aAWJm-0003nD-1w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Dec 2015 06:14:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39659 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAWJl-0002nC-Al for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Dec 2015 00:14:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36044) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAWJh-0002n4-Vb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Dec 2015 00:13:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAWJh-00038V-52 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Dec 2015 00:13:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59831) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAWJf-00037h-Gc; Sun, 20 Dec 2015 00:13:55 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aAWJf-0007QW-1q; Sun, 20 Dec 2015 00:13:55 -0500 In-reply-to: <878u4qdpd4.fsf@udel.edu> (message from Mark Oteiza on Sat, 19 Dec 2015 17:51:03 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:196541 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > * lisp/startup.el (inhibit-startup-echo-area-message): Replace custom > string with t. > (display-startup-echo-area-message): Only check if > inhibit-startup-echo-area-message is truthy. Please do not make this change. > Not only is the checking mechanism in > `display-startup-echo-area-message' naïve and error-prone (see > bug#13208), but it does nothing to stop the site from disabling the > message, OF COURSE this does actually stop people from disabling the message. It isn't intended to. In free software, we cannot actually stop people from making a certain change. This code blocks the most obvious way for the site to disable the message for all users. That's exactly what it is meant to do. When this doesn't work, the person will investigate why not, read what we said about the issue, and may decide not to do it. Please leave the code alone. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.