Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cua.dk _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
