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To: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: (very) little startup screen patch
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Kyle Jones writes:
 > Hrvoje Niksic writes:
 >  > Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
 >  > 
 >  > > A better solution (IMO) would be to knock out the `[Lucid]' (who
 >  > > cares?  I don't),
 >  > 
 >  > I agree with this.  Everyone's been checking for "XEmacs\\|Lucid" for
 >  > years now.
 > 
 > I don't believe the "everyone" part.  I changed a version check
 > that looked for Lucid in my own code within the last two weeks.
 > 
 > If you're going to strip something out of the version strip
 > something that has no known use, which I think means the hostname
 > and the build date.  Anyone see or have code that uses those?

Not that the startup screen has to use emacs-version. You can always
leave that unchanged for back-compatibility and filter it for the
startup screen.
-mav

