From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of *GNU Emacs* buffer on start-up? Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:36:56 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221637073 3778 80.91.229.12 (17 Sep 2008 07:37:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:37:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 17 09:38:40 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 1KfrcL-0007Kb-Pf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:38:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54325 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KfrbK-0002Iv-J1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:37:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kfrb2-0002In-HS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:37:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kfrb0-0002Hp-35 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:37:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51899 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kfrb0-0002Hm-0c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:37:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:34466) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kfraz-0006Da-Km for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:37:05 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kfrax-0005tD-7R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:37:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Kfrar-0000ki-Ek for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:36:57 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:36:57 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:36:57 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:57720 Archived-At: Xah wrote: > 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: ,----[ C-h v initial-major-mode RET ] | initial-major-mode is a variable defined in `startup.el'. | Its value is | lisp-interaction-mode | | | Documentation: | Major mode command symbol to use for the initial `*scratch*' buffer. | | You can customize this variable. | | [back] `---- -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA