Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wang!fitz From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: I think I might have found a bug Keywords: bug Message-ID: Date: 5 Sep 90 23:46:39 GMT References: <1990Aug30.213125.18159@cs.umn.edu> <1990Aug31.002402.8495@DSI.COM> <41246@mips.mips.COM> Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA Lines: 23 pmm@mips.COM (Paul M. Moriarty) writes: > It would be a lot > nicer if I could just direct a user to his/her elmrc and tell them to > modify to their heart's content rather than first telling them how to > create a default elmrc. People who want to muck with their elmrc's better have a good understanding of how it works, or they can badly burn themselves. I'd say let them learn how the defaults work before letting them modify anything. It's easy enough to create a default elmrc. > I'd strongly suggest that the default elmrc be written if .elm is being > created or if .elm exists and elmrc doesn't. I'd just as soon keep things the way they are. If elm 2.4 or 3.0 or whatever renames some option fields, or changes an option default, I don't want to have to modify the elmrc's of every user on this system. Any user who _has_ built a new elmrc should change it on his own, but presumably those people know what they're doing. --- Tom Fitzgerald Wang Labs fitz@wang.com 1-508-967-5278 Lowell MA, USA ...!uunet!wang!fitz