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: Startup screen default directory Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:34:45 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87wspce6gj.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202736944 13061 80.91.229.12 (11 Feb 2008 13:35:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:35:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 11 14:36:06 2008 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 1JOYpI-0003mk-Fh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:36:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOYop-0002VR-5w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:35:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOYo8-0001xW-23 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:34:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOYo2-0001tS-Qb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:34:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOYo2-0001tK-IE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:34:46 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JOYo2-0002QM-Ck for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:34:46 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JOYo1-00080l-U7; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:34:45 -0500 In-reply-to: <87wspce6gj.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:29:16 +0200) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:88744 Archived-At: When desktop-mode is active, then after loading the desktop file and restoring all saved files, the startup screen have the default directory set to the directory of the last restored file. Since the last file is not visible (only the startup screen is shown), this leaves to wonder why the default directory of the startup screen is set to some arbitrary directory. This is very confusing. I propose to set the default directory of the startup screen to the directory where Emacs was run. That seems like a good idea. However, maybe desktop.el should switch to the restored buffers. If someone is restoring an old desktop, he has seen the splash screen before, and has probably used Emacs for some time. There is no need to show him the startup screen again.