From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of *GNU Emacs* buffer on start-up? Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:54:18 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <2868c8db-ff02-4d67-9e80-4cf323086ca3@l33g2000pri.googlegroups.com> References: <873ajzwoqu.fsf@kobe.laptop> <823901dd-c54c-4e3b-b6ad-512d52724a46@z11g2000prl.googlegroups.com> <87ljxoffs6.fsf@atthis.clsnet.nl> 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 1221874873 552 80.91.229.12 (20 Sep 2008 01:41:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:41:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 20 03:42:10 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 1KgrU9-0000nz-Fn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:42:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54757 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KgrT8-0004NZ-5O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:41:06 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!l33g2000pri.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.185.159 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1221872059 3759 127.0.0.1 (20 Sep 2008 00:54:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:54:19 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l33g2000pri.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.185.159; posting-account=qPxGtQkAAADb6PWdLGiWVucht1ZDR6fn 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:162487 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:57830 Archived-At: On Sep 19, 8:32 am, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On 2008-09-19, Xah Lee wrote: > > > A: This attitude has plagued unix and computer geekers for decades. In > > the early 1990s (DOS and unix), tech geekers would sneer at graphical > > menus and mouse, with hordes of reasons how pure text interface, the > > command line, and or keyboard operations are sufficient and superior > > than graphical user interface or using a mouse. This seems ridiculous > > today, but such voices are commonly seen all over newsgroups. (Since > > the reasons still stand and they are not ridiculous. In argument, you can't just say something is ridiculous. You have to give reasons. Perhaps you think something is obvious. But in arguments, others might think the opposite is obvious. That's why good argument needs explicit reasons. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84