From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: joakim@verona.se
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Should Emacs have an upgrade procedure?
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:07:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7hp5cdry.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m38w9leien.fsf@verona.se> (joakim@verona.se's message of "Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:41:52 +0100")
> - The Emacs splash screen shows a message: "A number of defaults have
> been changed between Emacs 23 and 24. Would you like to go through the
> changes, or just enable them?".
Sounds OK. It could also be done just to announce changes, whether
defaults or not.
> This message is NOT shown if the user previously had expressed an
> opinion about these particular defaults.
The issue is how to make sure it never becomes annoying. E.g. for
people who share their .emacs between different machines and/or use
different versions of Emacs, ...
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-22 2:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-21 16:41 Should Emacs have an upgrade procedure? joakim
2010-03-21 17:21 ` Drew Adams
2010-03-21 20:36 ` joakim
2010-03-21 23:55 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-22 1:14 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-22 1:18 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-22 1:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-21 18:55 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-03-21 19:34 ` joakim
2010-03-21 20:39 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-21 22:49 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-03-21 22:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-22 1:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-03-22 1:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-22 2:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-03-22 13:19 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-03-22 2:07 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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