Re: Info warnings

Thursday, 4 June 1998

        Oscar Figueiredo <Oscar.Figueiredo(a)di.epfl.ch&gt; writes:

...
   >> Your not having the right to overwrite that file at the
moment you
   >> run Info does not mean you can not acquire that right.

   Hrvoje> ?????????????????????

   Hrvoje> How do you expect me to be able to write to /usr/local/info/dir?!  I
   Hrvoje> run XEmacs on a multi-user machine, for Christ's sake!

 Because you can't su root, log on your server or whatever does not
 mean nobody can... Most Linux users are their own administrators,
 other people may have good contact with their administrator, etc... 
XEmacs under Unix should not warn the user that she cannot write to
/usr/local/info/dir.  The fact that most Linux users can su to root is 
irrelevant.

...
 The message is informative, the user must be notified that what
he's
 seeing is not what is on his dir file.  I believe it should stay the
 default and it is up to anyone to change that behaviour with full
 knowledge of the fact. 
Are you sure you fully appreciate the ramifications of your words?
What you implemented means that most of XEmacs 21.0 users will get
your "notice" every time they press `C-h i'.  This is bogus and it
must go away.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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"Psychos _do not_ explode when sunlight hits them."

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