From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: xraysmalevich@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of *GNU Emacs* buffer on start-up? Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:20:09 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <25b3bc52-3ac7-42ca-931b-9e0a2f8790d0@f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> References: <71208e97-140c-445d-8eda-1705f11b14b3@r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com> <095ef0c0-c7f4-494d-8bf6-8a5ee43fd934@i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <3c61c357-0705-4ff4-b793-fa6827415fdd@n38g2000prl.googlegroups.com> <4fr5r5-jnp.ln1@invalid.net> <7d4066c0-df52-4b06-b206-03e805df2192@a18g2000pra.googlegroups.com> <87fxni7yq1.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222803684 24778 80.91.229.12 (30 Sep 2008 19:41:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:41:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 30 21:42:23 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1Kkl6x-00050W-BY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:42:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45270 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kkl5u-0003Xz-Bj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:41:14 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!transit3.readnews.com!bins0.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!postnews.google.com!f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.183.178.159 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1222802409 5605 127.0.0.1 (30 Sep 2008 19:20:09 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:20:09 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=209.183.178.159; posting-account=GWRmcQoAAAByQPzrR7mhf5cbvIm17KAJ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 PROXY1 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:162894 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:58235 Archived-At: On Sep 30, 9:37=A0am, nos...@dev.null (Alexey Pustyntsev) wrote: > Considering the people that use Emacs, I think the defaults should be > as neutral as possible. Can you imagine how "fun" Emacs would be if it -- by default -- started out adding wrinkly-lines under all of our mis-spellings, or a little cartoon Gnu popped-up in the corner saying "It looks like you're trying to open a new temporary buffer! Would you like to open a file, instead?" ::shudder:: -the Other michael