[14498] in Athena Bugs
Re: Athena v8.0 emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Aug 4 22:34:47 1996
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 22:34:44 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Eric Mumpower <nocturne@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[14484] in Athena Bugs"
> It appears the emacs dumped for Athena 8.0 has require-final-newline
> set to "nil" by default. This is almost certainly a bug; it's a
> distinct change in behavior from previous versions of emacs
> available on athena, and the average user is likely to be better off
> having it set to "t" unless they explicitly want it to be otherwise,
> in which case they can figure out how to make the change themselves.
nil is the default value in emacs as shipped. I don't think there's
anything special about Athena users such that they would be better
served by changing the default in our environment. So I didn't
propagate this change to our site-init file.
Yes, it's a change from earlier versions of emacs on Athena, but I
don't think it's noticeable enough to matter.
