From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ASCII-only startup message? Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 01:50:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: <567ECD8C.1070408@cs.ucla.edu> <8360zlhy7x.fsf@gnu.org> <567EE043.9020109@cs.ucla.edu> <83y4chgh5q.fsf@gnu.org> <567EED47.1090700@cs.ucla.edu> <83si2pgci8.fsf@gnu.org> <567F22B1.9040702@cs.ucla.edu> <83poxsh7xv.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451371824 21987 80.91.229.3 (29 Dec 2015 06:50:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 06:50:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 29 07:50:15 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aDo6p-00053j-5n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 07:50:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47251 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDo6o-00088q-Ka for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 01:50:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39459) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDo6l-00088Z-K2 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 01:50:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDo6k-0001s0-U8 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 01:50:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49441) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDo6h-0001q3-Tz; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 01:50:07 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aDo6h-0004UN-9C; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 01:50:07 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Mon, 28 Dec 2015 12:04:30 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:197065 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > `This' reads perfectly fine to me, and is what I prefer to see. But that ship > has proverbially sailed; otherwise, I'd suggest we reverse this whole debacle, > and go back to the original behavior before any more time is lost. I think we should poll the users. We could set the default either way depending on what the users prefer. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.