From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: cua-mode and the tutorial Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:15:32 +0200 Message-ID: References: <44C8F069.1070002@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156627042 28460 80.91.229.2 (26 Aug 2006 21:17:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:17:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 26 23:17:21 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GH5Wd-0003MO-Ax for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:17:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GH5Wc-0008Re-QK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:17:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GH5WT-0008RX-0f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:16:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GH5WR-0008RG-Pn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:16:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GH5WR-0008RD-Mi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:16:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.236] (helo=pfepb.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GH5f1-0003Pc-4q; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:25:47 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 05DF6A50039; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:16:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:19:03 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:58926 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> In one case, it is set system wide in site-load.el. >> No one should do that! People are not supposed to start off >> new users with nonstandard Emacs settings. > >> I think I will put something into startup.el to make this >> cease to take effect. > > I think trying to prevent people from shooting in their foot is the wrong > way to go, since it'll also prevent them from doing other things. Agree!! > I'd rather we put some kind of loud warning on the splash page if we detect > something like viper or cua enabled before .emacs gets loaded. That's ok with me (I know how to inhibit the splash screen for the machines where I do this). -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk