From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should Emacs have an upgrade procedure? Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:07:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269223645 18407 80.91.229.12 (22 Mar 2010 02:07:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:07:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs development discussions To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 22 03:07:21 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtX33-0005Ls-2k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:07:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36564 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NtX32-0004ps-J8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:07:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NtX2y-0004pZ-Dr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:07:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58596 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NtX2x-0004pQ-9b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:07:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtX2w-0002FQ-2y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:07:15 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:31618 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtX2w-0002FJ-0y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:07:14 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEABpupkvO+IPa/2dsb2JhbACbOXS5MYR9BIsd X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.51,284,1267419600"; d="scan'208";a="58775163" Original-Received: from 206-248-131-218.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([206.248.131.218]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 21 Mar 2010 22:07:13 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7EA3D660FC; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:07:13 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (joakim@verona.se's message of "Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:41:52 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:122446 Archived-At: > - 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