Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>> when XEmacs is started with `--vanilla' or `-q', it displays an item
>>>> "Load init files" in the menu bar.  The name of the command in XEmacs
>>>> is `load-user-init-file'.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe Emacs should do have something similar.
> 
>> The common use case for this feature is a user reports a bug, we ask
>> them to replicate with "xemacs -vanilla", and now they have error
>> messages and stuff in buffers.  So they hit the "Send Mail" menu item
>> and get the horrible default MUA when they were expecting Gnus or VM.
> 
> That's a good point.  We need to work harder to make sure that
> `emacs -Q' either refuses to try and send mail (with an error that
> explains that mail is not configured) or that does something
> sufficiently safe that we're pretty sure it'll work.  It used to be that
> running `sendmail' was good enough, but nowadays that sadly doesn't cut
> it any more.
> 
> As for the default MUA itself, I think it's OK as long as it works.


On w32 the default system mail program is used in this case and it works 
quite good IMO.