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: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 00:10:43 -0500 Message-ID: References: <878u4qdpd4.fsf@udel.edu> <20151222184106.GA5310@holos> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450847471 28233 80.91.229.3 (23 Dec 2015 05:11:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 05:11:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mark Oteiza Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 23 06:11:02 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 1aBbhV-00086P-CF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 06:11:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54314 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBbhU-0005Fe-OM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 00:11:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37447) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBbhH-0005FR-FL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 00:10:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBbhG-0001Ss-Kj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 00:10:47 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43435) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aBbhF-0001SV-6B; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 00:10:45 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aBbhD-0000Cp-ST; Wed, 23 Dec 2015 00:10:44 -0500 In-reply-to: <20151222184106.GA5310@holos> (message from Mark Oteiza on Tue, 22 Dec 2015 13:41:06 -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:196701 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. ]]] > > This code blocks the most obvious way for the site to disable the > > message for all users. > Why is this important? So that sysadmins will think twice before disabling the message for their users. > It also makes the init file of a user following the docstring of > inhibit-startup-echo-area-message less portable. In what sense "less portable"? What does it need to be portable to? If you answer that, we can judge whether this issue matters. > Further, it forces > particular syntax upon users not using the customize interface. That is no great loss. The feature is important, and these alleged disadvantages seem to be so minor they hardly exist. -- 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.