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: Deprecate _emacs on Windows Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:01:08 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299988884 20923 80.91.229.12 (13 Mar 2011 04:01:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 04:01:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , Emacs developers To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 13 05:01:20 2011 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 1PycUZ-00007D-Po for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 05:01:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59642 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PycUZ-0005Fh-8e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:01:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54787 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PycUT-0005DZ-4w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:01:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PycUP-0007Ee-HY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:01:10 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:12792 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PycUP-0007EU-BQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:01:09 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAMTQe03O+IG+/2dsb2JhbACmQ3i/RoViBIUrjR2DBA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.62,309,1297054800"; d="scan'208";a="96084345" Original-Received: from 206-248-129-190.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.129.190]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 12 Mar 2011 23:01:08 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4D5B358FE0; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:01:08 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:02:07 +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-Received-From: 206.248.154.183 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:137181 Archived-At: >> As part of the discussion of bug#8220, I'd like to propose to add >>=20 >> =A0(warn "`_emacs' init file is deprecated, please use `.emacs'") >>=20 >> at the appropriate place in `command-line', as a first past to >> eventually make _emacs obsolete and remove its support (on Windows, of >> course, not MS-DOS). >>=20 >> Opinions? > A good simplification. The patch doesn't show it to be a simplification, but I think it's a good idea. Stefan