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, 21 Aug 2007 19:23:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87fy2oms2y.fsf@jurta.org> <85sl6o3rj1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <873aykml2v.fsf@jurta.org> <87bqd744yp.fsf@jurta.org> <7dbe73ed0708190830r22e7595dh83314f3b71125cae@mail.gmail.com> <8t8x87vszo.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87odh14yro.fsf@jurta.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 1187738427 9500 80.91.229.12 (21 Aug 2007 23:20:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:20:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, mathias.dahl@gmail.com To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 22 01:20:24 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 1INd1L-0006EO-Ei for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:20:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1INd1K-0008JP-TX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:20:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1INd0c-0007zV-Be for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:19:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1INd0a-0007yn-QL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:19:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1INd0a-0007yh-LN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:19:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1INd0a-0000v5-S8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:19:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1INd4b-0001BB-Ci; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:23:45 -0400 In-reply-to: <87odh14yro.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:28:55 +0300) 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:76917 Archived-At: > The text that changes is not that big, and I would expect people to > take it in in 5 seconds. > > But maybe people whose native language is not English would have > trouble. Is that it? Yes, and it takes time not only to read the text, but also understand it and memorize information in the new program for beginners. Well, if the text in the startup buffer is small enough, we won't have to think about alternating screens.