[4058] in testers
Re: emacs startup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu May 20 13:40:23 1999
Message-Id: <199905201740.NAA25018@small-gods.mit.edu>
To: kcr@MIT.EDU (K. Ramm)
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "19 May 1999 21:03:55 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 13:40:09 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> We disable lisp interaction by default. Perhaps we should arrange
> to amend the message (or turn it on again).
On whether we should turn it on again: I didn't make the decision to
turn it off, of course, and in fact when we first went to emacs 19 I
wanted to leave it on, but got a lot of pushback from users.
Essentially, it's pretty dumb for the editor to throw a programming
language at the novice user right at step 0.
I think we can setq initial-scratch-message in our startup file to
change the message.
