From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Deprecate _emacs on Windows Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:48:48 -0800 Message-ID: <1E772BEF5AE64D5381C3EBAAAFADE343@us.oracle.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299970156 15698 80.91.229.12 (12 Mar 2011 22:49:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:49:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Emacs developers' To: "'Lennart Borgman'" , "'Juanma Barranquero'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 12 23:49:10 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 1PyXcR-0000hd-J6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:49:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53967 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PyXcL-0003fd-7w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:49:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55551 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PyXcG-0003dO-1l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:48:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PyXcE-0007k4-NO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:48:55 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:60503) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PyXcE-0007jx-HO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:48:54 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet13.oracle.com (rcsinet13.oracle.com [148.87.113.125]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id p2CMmpef000464 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:48:53 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by rcsinet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id p2CMmph4015810 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:48:51 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt016.oracle.com (abhmt016.oracle.com [141.146.116.25]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id p2CMmoR8006034; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:48:50 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.53.173) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:48:50 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcvhATFjzVjv+ID3SwWDyaDJFNtxggABgj1Q X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 X-Source-IP: acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090202.4D7BF853.015F,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.121 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:137175 Archived-At: > > Opinions? > > A good simplification. Another opinion: a bad idea. (See bug #8220 thread.) I'd propose instead that all platforms treat `_emacs' as a legitimate default init-file name (in addition to `.emacs'). No doubt a minority of one, but that's my opinion anyway.