From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Scratch buffer annoyance Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 09:02:06 +0200 Message-ID: <85abt7kck1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <85ejinrqgk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <35917.128.165.123.18.1185998078.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <85vebzq7vd.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87odhqethv.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87zm18v7ug.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186211004 15216 80.91.229.12 (4 Aug 2007 07:03:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 07:03:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 04 09:03:21 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IHDfT-0003zN-MH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Aug 2007 09:03:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IHDfJ-0000L5-Ev for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:03:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IHDfF-0000Kf-DE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:03:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IHDfB-0000KR-5w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:03:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IHDfB-0000KO-2A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:03:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IHDej-0000jy-I8; Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:02:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-05.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.45]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IHDeQ-0001V9-I3; Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:02:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-13-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-13-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.30]) by mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B33AB183EBB; Sat, 4 Aug 2007 09:02:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.41]) by mail-in-13-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A14921B8E41; Sat, 4 Aug 2007 09:02:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-010-037.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.10.37]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56D59212F63; Sat, 4 Aug 2007 09:02:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id ABFC91C4F932; Sat, 4 Aug 2007 09:02:07 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri\, 03 Aug 2007 18\:02\:12 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.1/3854/Sat Aug 4 06:49:48 2007 on mail-in-01.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:76026 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > > A string is a file name to visit. > > Then there is no distinction between file and directory names, but maybe > this is not needed provided that this string is always used as an argument > of `find-file'. > > Exactly. > > > A symbol that's a command is an initial major mode for *scratch*. > > There is already a user option `initial-major-mode' that defines > an initial major mode for *scratch*. Using two user options > for the same setting would be confusing. > > We could alias this variable to `initial-major-mode', or we > could say that t means use a *scratch* buffer. Then it would not be possible to specify a mode for *scratch* unless one also makes *scratch* the startup screen. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum