Poll: is ~/.emacs auto-migration worthwhile? Or too dangerous?

Michael Sperber sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Mon Oct 8 03:54:52 EDT 2007


Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu> writes:

> 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.

There's something I'm missing: Just say no to auto-migration the first
time, and it will remember and not ask you again.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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