From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of *GNU Emacs* buffer on start-up? Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 04:44:57 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <311b3fec-c697-4791-9aaa-26a8d58e5e16@d31g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> References: <87ljxoffs6.fsf@atthis.clsnet.nl> <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> 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 1222865004 27391 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2008 12:43:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 12:43:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 01 14:44:21 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 1Kl13t-0003Py-AQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:44:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55011 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kl12q-0006CF-Gc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:43:08 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!d31g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.6.104 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1222861498 25549 127.0.0.1 (1 Oct 2008 11:44:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:44:58 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d31g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.6.104; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052912 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:162905 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:58245 Archived-At: On Oct 1, 6:37=A0am, stan wrote: > > I'm interested in emacs, I'm not interested in evangelism. > I would sleep just fine whether emacs was the most popular app on the > planet or if I was the last user. I have many more important things in > my life to worry about. This is a perfectly consistent view for one who is all-in-one: emacs developer+user+creator. But not for us more ordinary user-folk. When emacs dies I will be one of the non-users -- maybe with grumbles or sadness or whatever. But ultimately those emotions will be irrelevant then. > Making available a special .emacs to accommodate new people might be an a= cceptable option. An XL-mode? -- emaX for Learners or alternatively the initials of the most lovable member of this forum (wink)