From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should Emacs have an upgrade procedure? Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:39:52 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87eijd7be3.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269204028 28639 80.91.229.12 (21 Mar 2010 20:40:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:40:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 21 21:40:23 2010 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 1NtRwd-0003b1-FW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:40:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58896 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NtRwc-0005sd-LO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:40:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NtRwX-0005rB-0A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:40:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51453 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NtRwV-0005qi-Fv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:40:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtRwT-0005dK-V2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:40:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f220.google.com ([209.85.220.220]:47064) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtRwT-0005dA-MB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:40:13 -0400 Original-Received: by fxm20 with SMTP id 20so5524259fxm.32 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:40:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=uPkBYhb8PJKbFiU/8jVQXQu3xWgpiKo4ZJ1G62ZEln0=; b=Vhyp+DwEo9k4pZbzzuksBoV7LXcLvacODyhPTJNZ+Eq3KgUe5UQc1BigC8Qz+BCdds ppJiMemLgTyJFpJHpycSGkV3Ou2X/1hath49PI6s9+HgDg6LgiFJDQbVVnagVIw1oG3k EFFvhvIDWRbj+yslfjaVxeLlA6OSpD9GdDNN8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=YM4WE39wFYPzJHRnVfN7ltQDq3RWYaCjFEWvQzoQfH+MnePmUCkMN3S0nht/xuw5Fa jMiuqdxbTbqqXADHRXDrQ6F2R7FIZwH/SdcCmvewEsWocyqRTUFhBnQhJ+P0j1dZFrvf 4NTfkcAB8zMLw1eeO4P8m7FAhquvvwAT7v5o0= Original-Received: by 10.239.170.72 with SMTP id r8mr905446hbe.32.1269204012160; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:40:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87eijd7be3.fsf@lifelogs.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:122419 Archived-At: 2010/3/21 Ted Zlatanov : > On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:41:52 +0100 joakim@verona.se wrote: > > j> Should Emacs have an upgrade procedure? > j> Here's a user story: > > j> - The user has just installed Emacs 24, previously having running > j> =C2=A0 Emacs23 > j> - The Emacs splash screen shows a message: "A number of defaults have > j> =C2=A0 been changed between Emacs 23 and 24. Would you like to go thro= ugh the > j> =C2=A0 changes, or just enable them?". This message is NOT shown if th= e user > j> =C2=A0 previously had expressed an opinion about these particular defa= ults. > > I think assistant.el (in Gnus) could be used to automate this. Where is it? What does it do?