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Re: emacs -Q not documented
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Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: emacs -Q not documented |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:31:46 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> The patch is trivial, but we should probably add a long name for it.
>
> I guess so--if we keep it. But the set of things it does is not
> really coherent.
>
> It turns off all init files; it also turns off various frame features
> such as the menu bar and tool bar, it turns off tool tips,
> and it selects a different type of cursor. There is nothing particularly
> natural or desirable about this combination.
It is intended to be an option turn off all "extra features".
This is _extremely_ useful for reporting and debugging redisplay
problems, as it removes a lot of extra stuff that is most often
irrelevant to a specific problem.
Just like we ask people to try emacs -q for reported problems in lisp
code, it is very useful to ask a person to try reproducing a redisplay
problem with emacs -Q and if the problem exists in that situation, you
can quickly eliminate a lot of possible causes of the problem.
But most important, running emacs -Q when debugging redisplay problems
makes it much easier to know what's going on.
> I see no reason to have
> a short option for it. Perhaps we should just remove it.
Just because we cannot find a long name for it -- that's silly, IMO!
Please keep the option. It serves the purpose it was added for very
well!!
>
> Why was -Q installed, anyway?
You approved it...
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- Re: emacs -Q not documented, (continued)
- Re: emacs -Q not documented, Miles Bader, 2005/04/02
- Re: emacs -Q not documented, Kim F. Storm, 2005/04/02
- Re: emacs -Q not documented, Miles Bader, 2005/04/02
- Re: emacs -Q not documented, Henrik Enberg, 2005/04/02
- Re: emacs -Q not documented, Miles Bader, 2005/04/02
- Re: emacs -Q not documented, Nick Roberts, 2005/04/02
- Re: emacs -Q not documented, David Kastrup, 2005/04/02
Re: emacs -Q not documented, Richard Stallman, 2005/04/04
- Re: emacs -Q not documented, Miles Bader, 2005/04/04
- Re: emacs -Q not documented, Miles Bader, 2005/04/04
- Re: emacs -Q not documented,
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: emacs -Q not documented, Miles Bader, 2005/04/05
- Re: emacs -Q not documented, Kim F. Storm, 2005/04/05
- Re: emacs -Q not documented, Miles Bader, 2005/04/05
- Re: emacs -Q not documented, Miles Bader, 2005/04/05
- Re: emacs -Q not documented, Kim F. Storm, 2005/04/05
Re: emacs -Q not documented, Robert J. Chassell, 2005/04/05
Re: emacs -Q not documented, David Kastrup, 2005/04/05
Re: emacs -Q not documented, Kim F. Storm, 2005/04/05
Re: emacs -Q not documented, David Kastrup, 2005/04/05
Re: emacs -Q not documented, Kim F. Storm, 2005/04/05