From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
Cc: mvoteiza@udel.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove special requirement to disable startup message.
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 05:38:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mvsi2h4q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8760z65k03.fsf@russet.org.uk> (phillip.lord@russet.org.uk)
> From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 00:08:28 +0000
>
> > ;; FIXME? Why does this get such weirdly extreme treatment, when the
> > ;; more important inhibit-startup-screen does not.
> >
> > This was added before either bug#12370 or bug#13208 were filed; the
> > answers in all of these discussions have been incomplete.
>
> Not wishing to restart a discussion I largely missed, but would anyone
> object to me fixing the FIXME? comment. I would also like to extend the
> docstring with a short explanation.
>
> The code may be sensible from a freedom point-of-view, but it would make
> more sense if the documentation explained and reinforced this.
If by fixing the FIXME you mean explaining more in the commentary and
doc strings, by all means go ahead. If you mean something else,
please tell more.
Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-07 3:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-19 22:51 [PATCH] Remove special requirement to disable startup message Mark Oteiza
2015-12-20 5:13 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-22 18:41 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-12-22 19:39 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-24 1:41 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-12-25 5:48 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-25 16:24 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-12-23 5:10 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-24 1:41 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-12-24 3:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-25 5:48 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-24 5:07 ` Random832
2015-12-20 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-22 19:09 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-12-22 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-24 1:49 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-12-24 3:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-07 0:08 ` Phillip Lord
2016-01-07 0:38 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-07 3:38 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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