proposed UI change

Alastair Reid alastair@reid-hoffmann.net
Mon, 14 Jul 2003 13:02:55 +0100


On Monday 14 July 2003 12:54 pm, Ross Paterson wrote:
> I propose to reverse the defaults for the q and w options, to make
> quietness the default.  Now that Hugs uses the hierarchical libraries,
> they can produce quite a lot of output.  In particular the Hugs banner
> is often lost.

Sounds reasonable.

I don't recall details of exactly what these flags cut off but we should be 
alert for unintended consequences like losing error messages or warnings 
(hmmm, does Hugs have warnings?) since their original purposes were something 
like supporting the hugsserver and being more emacs friendly.

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Alastair