From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of *GNU Emacs* buffer on start-up? Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:16:44 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221694959 15127 80.91.229.12 (17 Sep 2008 23:42:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:42:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 18 01:43:35 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kg6gJ-0003MA-2p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:43:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45988 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kg6fI-0002hL-12 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:42:32 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.185.159 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1221693404 15887 127.0.0.1 (17 Sep 2008 23:16:44 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:16:44 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.185.159; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:162406 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57748 Archived-At: On Sep 17, 12:36 am, Kevin Rodgers wrote: > Xahwrote: > > I think the existance of the lisp scratch buffer is one of the major > > usability problem of emacs that prevents emacs from being widely > > adopted by most text editing audience. > > I think you should customize Emacs to behave as you want and not presume > to speak for most text editing audience: i was making a suggestion. As such, its premise is that the suggested idea is good for general audience. perhaps you thought that my suggestion actually is not reasonable and is more like a one person's preference. If so, please give reasons. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84