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: Scratch buffer annoyance Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:22:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: <871wf5cv6y.fsf@jurta.org> <7dbe73ed0707190725l426d0731u5f9c36cd14278f78@mail.gmail.com> <87k5st7iqt.fsf@jurta.org> <87sl7ebwtk.fsf@jurta.org> <87sl7d9w9s.fsf@jurta.org> <874pjp5xl5.fsf@jurta.org> <87abtfo9vr.fsf@jurta.org> <86myxcpryf.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185913321 1805 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2007 20:22:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:22:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, miles.bader@necel.com To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 31 22:21:54 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 1IFyE5-0002Ks-Ca for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:21:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IFyE4-0002dm-T6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:21:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IFyCc-00024I-P4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:20:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IFyCb-00023Q-5B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:20:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IFyCa-00023L-Sz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:20:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IFyCa-0002iw-KX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:20:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IFyEm-0001p9-4h; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:22:36 -0400 In-reply-to: <86myxcpryf.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:29:12 +0200) 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:75870 Archived-At: > Since it's not a name, that's probably not the best choice either. > How 'bout initial-buffer-content? initial-buffer-target? > initial-buffer-specification? startup-item "Item" doesn't say much. `initial-buffer-contents' or `startup-buffer-contents' seem to be the best ideas so far. (It should be "contents", not "content".)