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Re: Should Emacs have an upgrade procedure?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Should Emacs have an upgrade procedure?
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:07:13 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> - The Emacs splash screen shows a message: "A number of defaults have
>   been changed between Emacs 23 and 24. Would you like to go through the
>   changes, or just enable them?".

Sounds OK.  It could also be done just to announce changes, whether
defaults or not.

>   This message is NOT shown if the user previously had expressed an
>   opinion about these particular defaults.

The issue is how to make sure it never becomes annoying.  E.g. for
people who share their .emacs between different machines and/or use
different versions of Emacs, ...


        Stefan




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