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David Moore writes:

> Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:
 ...
>> Why should the burden to convince be on those who just want to
>> things to keep working?

Because there appeared to be a lot of confusion over what the correct
behavior should be and I picked the one I thought was correct.

> The man page [1] does not say that -batch implies -no-site-init and
> -no-init-ile, nor does the emacs man page that I have.  The xemacs info
> file says only that -batch implies -q.  The emacs 19.34 info file says
> that -batch implies -q.  And it further states:

> `--no-site-file'
>      Do not load `site-start.el'.  The options `-q', `-u' and `-batch'
>      have no effect on the loading of this file--this is the only
>      option that blocks it.


> So, I say, don't fix it, if it ain't broke. [2]

This is a convincing argument for leaving things as they are and
fixing the efs Makefile only.

> [3] I've got the footnote [3] disease.[1]

[1]
We've got to have a footnote-minor-mode in 20.2, really. :-)
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