From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A wish, a plea Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:24:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4679F561.4030600@hacksaw.org> <87d4zomyiw.fsf@red-bean.com> <87fy4kjy0k.fsf@red-bean.com> <467AF6CC.2000300@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182529596 15812 80.91.229.12 (22 Jun 2007 16:26:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:26:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, wilde@sha-bang.de, hacksaw@hacksaw.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 22 18:26:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I1lxr-0006Vo-QE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:26:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1lxr-0004Zi-6K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:26:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1lwK-0003xH-3U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1lwI-0003wn-Oy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:24:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1lwI-0003wj-Ga for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:24:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I1lwI-00035p-6i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:24:50 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I1lwH-0007FG-OZ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:24:49 -0400 In-reply-to: <467AF6CC.2000300@gnu.org> (message from Jason Rumney on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:08:12 +0100) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73634 Archived-At: How about if Emacs left the splash screen as the active buffer if there were no files listed on the command-line, until the user deliberately switches buffers (either with C-x C-f to edit a new file, or C-x b to *scratch*) Would that really change anything? People could still insert text into that buffer. Why would this not be an opportunity for the same problem that occurs occasionally with *scratch*?