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Re: [PATCH] Remove special requirement to disable startup message.
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Phillip Lord |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Remove special requirement to disable startup message. |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Jan 2016 00:08:28 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Mark Oteiza <address@hidden> writes:
>> I'm sorry, but I don't agree with the emacshorrors commentary, and I
>> don't think we should make disabling this startup message site-wide so
>> easy. The discussion in bug#12370 shows I'm not the only one.
>
> What the discussion fails to show is why this is desirable.
>
> I'm also not the only one asking why such weird treatment is present.
>
> ;; FIXME? Why does this get such weirdly extreme treatment, when the
> ;; more important inhibit-startup-screen does not.
>
> This was added before either bug#12370 or bug#13208 were filed; the
> answers in all of these discussions have been incomplete.
Not wishing to restart a discussion I largely missed, but would anyone
object to me fixing the FIXME? comment. I would also like to extend the
docstring with a short explanation.
The code may be sensible from a freedom point-of-view, but it would make
more sense if the documentation explained and reinforced this.
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