Re: EmacsW32 invocation options

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 5/5/07, Kim F. Storm <no-spam@cua.dk> wrote:

> but the discussion was going around
> in circles

Yes. In a previous post Eli has described the process quite accurately.

> and was becoming quite personal.

Personal?

> Accusing Lennart of being
> destructive was unjustified IMHO.

And accusing Eli of the same wasn't? I'm sitting here waiting for you
to say to Lennart the same you said to me...

> Neither am I :-)

Your command of English is obviously much better than mine (I'm
self-taught, after all), but as I've said, I choose to use
"destructive" for a specific reason; that was no slip.

> IMO, we have to balance this "cross-platform consistency" with the
> user's expectation of "Emacs working seamlessly on _my_ platform".

There are specific limits to that balance. For example, if I'm not
mistaken, RMS forbids changes that would give Emacs an advantage on
Windows over GNU/Linux or other free operating systems.

> So why don't we try to find ways to accomodate people like Lennart who
> really wants to contribute, but whose ideas are too radical to be the
> default behaviour?

Perhaps you're right, but here we aren't discussing a radical idea,
just an half-cooked one (IMO, etc.).

            Juanma