From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs -Q not documented
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:47:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x54qeki6da.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3u0mk9rur.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (Kim F. Storm's message of "Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:28:28 +0200")
storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Well, -Q has definitely its merits, especially for reporting bugs.
>> After seeing this discussion I still think that my `--bare' proposal
>> is not that bad: The -Q options really strips off all features you
>> would normally like to have for daily work.
>
> Yes, --bare-bones or --no-frills seem like good candidates, too.
--bare-bones seems ok. But things like menus are not "frills", and we
don't want to spread that impression. I don't want to get bug reports
from people that did not bother using the help menu or tutorial
announced on the splash screen because they decided from the manual
page that they were not the type of person interested in frills.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-06 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-29 14:28 emacs -Q not documented Werner LEMBERG
[not found] ` <E1DH4IQ-00048v-Bw@fencepost.gnu.org>
2005-04-02 6:47 ` Werner LEMBERG
2005-04-02 9:58 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-02 11:02 ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-02 22:17 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-02 22:47 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-02 22:52 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-02 23:00 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-02 23:21 ` Henrik Enberg
2005-04-02 23:37 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-02 23:45 ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-03 21:20 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-04 22:12 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-04 22:13 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-05 7:31 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-05 9:27 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-05 10:04 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-05 10:27 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-05 10:40 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-05 11:16 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-05 13:22 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-04-05 13:44 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-05 14:05 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-05 14:09 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-05 14:44 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-05 14:53 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-06 3:02 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-06 7:14 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-06 7:48 ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-06 23:02 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-06 8:45 ` Werner LEMBERG
2005-04-06 9:28 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-06 9:47 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-04-06 10:47 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-06 10:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-04-06 11:58 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-06 13:31 ` Stefan Monnier
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