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Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs (was: New start up splash screen anno


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs (was: New start up splash screen annoyance...)
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:37:14 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux)

"Robert J. Chassell" <address@hidden> writes:

> Bill Wohler <address@hidden> wrote
>
>     ... consider other legitimate use cases such as "sudo emacs FILE"
>
> That is another bad habit.  It is an illegitimate use of the feature.
> Don't you keep a root owned instance of Emacs running all the time you
> are at your terminal, when it is safe to run as root?  Or run as
> another user?  Do you start other fundamental programs frequently,
> like xterms or your window managers?

Whatever.  It is not the job of Emacs to punish users that have
different work styles or preferences or habits from yours or mine.

Emacs is the tool, not the master.

-- 
David Kastrup




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