Re: Poll: is ~/.emacs auto-migration worthwhile? Or too dangerous? (was: Re: [PATCH] fix corruption of ~/.emacs when trying to migrate an init file XEmacs can't fully load)
Jason Spiro wrote:
OK. So auto-migration corrupts some .emacs files. I bet this makes
some users dislike XEmacs even though XEmacs made a backup of .emacs
first.
All: do you think ~/.emacs auto-migration is worthwhile or not?
Please write "yes" or "no" to the list. If you want, add some
comments.
Auto-migration is annoying. Especially, when you are trying to test
XEmacs on a new platform where you actually use Emacs for daily work,
e.g. Carbon port. I understand the rationale for it, but it just
doesn't work. The Emacs settings may not even make sense to XEmacs due
to different packages installed. Of course, if you carefully coded
your .emacs with featurep, etc. But, who thinks that far ahead? What
I'm always thinking is, it would be great to have XEmacs instead of
Emacs, let me see if it works ... ouch!
Rodney
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