From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: EmacsW32 invocation options Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 10:32:51 +0200 Message-ID: References: <59osrdF2m97hgU1@mid.individual.net> <4637A396.9000300@gmail.com> <46383B57.6050508@gmail.com> <4638EE03.8000602@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178267595 26286 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2007 08:33:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 08:33:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Eli Zaretskii" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 04 10:33:14 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HjtE1-00031h-JJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 10:33:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjtKd-00063A-7M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 04:40:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjtKK-0005yF-KV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 04:39:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjtKJ-0005uc-22 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 04:39:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjtKI-0005uB-Pu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 04:39:42 -0400 Original-Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.235]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HjtDg-00044a-22 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 04:32:52 -0400 Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s17so718832wxc for ; Fri, 04 May 2007 01:32:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rOMt5YxfP3I1Gt1cIIqbiKbvb8pRrzI4Dv+mT9ZMu2/PHCFX4+wPhy8r0r5K8qUbwVXitP9YceBAutuquw5ZtdZc1+KQKLAVkwD/Wxba/DjbcUQj3Jlh3u8/PX8jfVg/7agh3ttKzJq/uVSURN7DeDqRaKDAmTkD6KgQe+yJ4J0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CSbLOiA+AxObwOMA1fYzf/XAILRzI+urYcAE8t++yMwvrWH9Nkz9pnk3oqeHsQ26UiyqK7rXt/MD9l4mWm0BaS/+y7naplZupZc93g8IykTKcJPGtXOZehH/0KTzxLJ70c1WyCUaYYEDE6xa5Pd7nn+5/0piowvRTEebvQ+4iTY= Original-Received: by 10.90.93.6 with SMTP id q6mr2819568agb.1178267571527; Fri, 04 May 2007 01:32:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.103.8 with HTTP; Fri, 4 May 2007 01:32:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43646 Archived-At: On 5/4/07, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > (He might be better off choosing a less radical word than > ``destructive'', but then he's not a native English speaker, so we all > might cut him some slack.) I should've said "not productive", but I was mimicking the use of "destructive" in one of Lennart's answers to you. > In this case, Lennart's attitude to put into his distribution every > patch he finds useful, but cannot convince the Emacs developers to > accept, is IMO not the best use of that freedom. It is confusing to > users who expect Emacs to behave as documented and to do that > consistently on all platforms. And it's an attitude that smells of > schism and forking, which many of us will not approve, because it > diminishes the already small group of active developers by spreading > their insufficient resources between several competing projects. You've nicely summarized the main points of the discussion. Thanks. Juanma