From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Splash screen problems Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:00:30 +0300 Message-ID: References: <20070408143841.GB6804@muc.de> <20070408230118.GB1395@muc.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176098497 31158 80.91.229.12 (9 Apr 2007 06:01:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 06:01:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 09 08:00:52 2007 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 4.50) id 1Hamvl-0006Dk-Oh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 08:00:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HamzX-0003xb-IC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:04:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HamzU-0003xT-Fq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:04:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HamzS-0003wx-Kd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:04:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HamzS-0003wu-Dq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:04:34 -0400 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hamvd-0003W2-TY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:00:38 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-248-28.inter.net.il [84.228.248.28]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id HOD39494 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 09:00:30 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <20070408230118.GB1395@muc.de> (message from Alan Mackenzie on 8 Apr 2007 23:41:56 +0200) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (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:69212 Archived-At: > Date: 8 Apr 2007 23:41:56 +0200 > Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 00:01:19 +0100 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Alan Mackenzie > > > What a bizarre thing to do in site-start.el!! Why don't have mercy on > > the other poor users of your system? > > The other users are me and me. ;-) I don't think that's that unusual > for users of PCs nowadays. Then there's no real reason to have site-init.el, IMO. > > root can have a .emacs file as well, you know. > > Yes, but copying and pasting between them isn't a very good idea, because > there are bugs even in my .emacs, my other .emacs and my third .emacs. > So things that I want for all "users", I put in site-start.el, so that > they only need debugging once. Doesn't look to me like a reason not to have a .emacs for root. > Did you look at my patches? Yes, of course. While I'm always for ``more documentation'', I'm not sure this is a very good idea in this case, because there are many other customizations that will not work in site-init.el.