From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs -Q not documented Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 07:13:52 +0900 Message-ID: References: <20050329.162832.71106586.wl@gnu.org> <20050402.084718.31638992.wl@gnu.org> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112655106 25104 80.91.229.2 (4 Apr 2005 22:51:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 22:51:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 05 00:51:42 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DIaP3-00067n-RJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2005 00:50:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DIZxq-0000JC-41 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:22:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DIZws-0008IC-Ch for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:21:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DIZwq-0008Gv-98 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:21:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DIZmZ-0004x1-1h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:10:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.170.200] (helo=rproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DIZpU-0005AG-Av for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:13:56 -0400 Original-Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 1so28648rny for ; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:13:53 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=iPo+EP5QLb3zJSGM+p9dYgHGQwUMwloJXVYLOYugPLeUzuB2+1MhTP7ieW3xnjAfUyJxJzRL67XNtpF6VMvymbunBkQDFfAqFNP+vYtc6A4zJkHLaTrC+g5t98Lhbq8gZwt2XoJ3Wzz5hM2Z/QOtb8xAo2eZJiV0FZH6GocaCLA= Original-Received: by 10.38.8.26 with SMTP id 26mr126622rnh; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:13:53 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.32 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 15:13:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: 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:35563 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35563 On Apr 4, 2005 6:20 AM, Richard Stallman wrote: > Why was -Q installed, anyway? I seem to recall it was intended for some debugging scenario (e.g. turning off lots of features helps simplify things). I agree it's overly weird. The "no init files" functionality is very useful though, and naturally maps to -Q (by analogy with -q). Maybe if those other features are useful they could be triggered by a separate option; specifying two short options is not much harder than one. -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.