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: cua-mode and the tutorial Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:19:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: <44C8F069.1070002@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156601977 29898 80.91.229.2 (26 Aug 2006 14:19:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:19:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 26 16:19:36 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GGz0U-0005Rq-JF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:19:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GGz0T-000708-VG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:19:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GGz0C-0006uI-BO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:19:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GGz08-0006ps-7n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:19:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GGz08-0006pp-4D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:19:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.34] (helo=tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GGz8b-0002Sl-AZ; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:27:53 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([70.55.147.36]) by tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20060826141904.IIFI29052.tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net@localhost>; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:19:04 -0400 Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 065B48E4E; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:19:04 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:22:43 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:58918 Archived-At: > In one case, it is set system wide in site-load.el. > No one should do that! People are not supposed to start off > new users with nonstandard Emacs settings. > I think I will put something into startup.el to make this > cease to take effect. I think trying to prevent people from shooting in their foot is the wrong way to go, since it'll also prevent them from doing other things. I'd rather we put some kind of loud warning on the splash page if we detect something like viper or cua enabled before .emacs gets loaded. Stefan