Re: Emacs crash backtrace.

[Andrea Corallo]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
>> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf@gmail.com>,
>>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 09:13:13 +0000
>> 
>> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> 
>> > Po Lu [2022-11-08 21:42:47] wrote:
>> >> Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org> writes:
>> >>> not sure if this was discussed already but, shouldn't we warn the user
>> >>> running an Emacs in such unsupported configuration?
>> >> That's already done so, in NEWS and other associated documentation.
>> >
>> > I think Andrea was thinking of something more "in your face", like on
>> > the splash screen or in the *scratch* buffer's initial text, or as
>> > a `display-warning`, ...
>> 
>> Exactly, if Emacs is not supposed to work properly in a certain
>> configuration I believe we definitely should inform the user of this.
>
> Why not simply refuse to start in that case?  We could add a special
> command-line option to override that, to leave users a "fire escape".

That's good as well, I've no strong preference over the two options.

Thanks

  Andrea