From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs -Q not documented Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 00:47:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20050329.162832.71106586.wl@gnu.org> <20050402.084718.31638992.wl@gnu.org> <16974.31697.605551.695664@farnswood.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112483209 6955 80.91.229.2 (2 Apr 2005 23:06:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 23:06:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nick Roberts , emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 03 01:06:46 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DHrhI-00053r-4p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Apr 2005 01:06:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DHriq-00010H-SM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 18:08:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DHrge-0008EN-3V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 18:05:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DHrgW-0008Ag-I0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 18:05:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DHrgT-00086f-UB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 18:05:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DHrOm-0002gS-80 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 17:47:24 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DHrNy-00073E-Jx; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 17:46:34 -0500 Original-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Sun, 3 Apr 2005 07:17:21 +0900") 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:35515 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35515 Miles Bader writes: > How about `--default-settings' (which could be abbreviated > `--default'; perhaps it ought to also accept the plural of that, > `--defaults', without actually putting it in the option help)? Since the settings are _not_ the defaults (for example, blink-cursor is off), that would be extremely misleading. --plain would be another proposal. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum