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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: Sascha Wilde <wilde@sha-bang.de>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jonathan Rockway <jon@jrock.us>,
	Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
Subject: Re: On the new startup and scratch buffer
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:00:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hcfrid17.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873arcvg86.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Fri\, 29 Feb 2008 01\:00\:41 +0200")

Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:

>>>>> If people are interested in a change to this behavior (always add text
>>>>> to *scratch* if initial-scratch-message isn't nil), I'll supply a patch.
>
> Installed on the trunk and the Emacs 22 branch.

I'm not convinced that this change should go into Emacs 22.  The
reason is a little subtle.

If you check the changelogs, inhibit-startup-screen used to be called
inhibit-startup-message, and i-s-m is now an alias for i-s-s.

With this change, people who've been using Emacs for a while and have
inhibit-startup-message bound to nil in their init file (as I did)
will encounter unexpected behavior.  In other words, even though
inhibit-startup-message is non-nil, there's a startup message!

It's scarcely a serious issue---after all, Emacs progresses, and the
meanings of variables change.  All the same, this kind of
incompatibility is best introduced between major versions.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-29 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-13 16:24 On the new startup and scratch buffer Angelo Graziosi
2008-02-13 17:56 ` Jonathan Rockway
2008-02-13 18:08   ` Angelo Graziosi
2008-02-13 22:45     ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-14  1:37       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-14  4:18         ` [patch] " Jonathan Rockway
2008-02-21 16:27     ` Sascha Wilde
2008-02-21 17:04       ` Jonathan Rockway
2008-02-21 23:11         ` Angelo Graziosi
2008-02-28 23:00         ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-28 23:40           ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-29 10:36             ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-29 21:31               ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-01  9:13                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-29 10:34           ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-29 23:00           ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-03-02  2:54             ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-02  9:48               ` Angelo Graziosi
2008-03-02 14:41                 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-02 15:20               ` Chong Yidong
2008-03-02 16:20                 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-03 14:01               ` Johan Bockgård
2008-03-03 21:19                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-04  0:34                   ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-12 22:40                 ` Juri Linkov

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