From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of *GNU Emacs* buffer on start-up? Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:16:51 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85myi4u5vw.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <873ajzwoqu.fsf@kobe.laptop> <9bceaf08-4a29-4593-be31-13e3b459763d@i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221799294 20481 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2008 04:41:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:41:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 19 06:42:31 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 1KgXp8-0002Rg-6f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:42:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44584 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KgXo6-00047Q-6S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:41:26 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+9mx342cEpPmZV5PYI9EwyMXtTw= Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Sep 2008 06:16:51 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2d7e5479.newsspool2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=b1IW=W5K`jd; iVb[J9ZZP`A9EHlD; 3Ycb4Fo<]lROoRa8kF5MOK`; S:bhJl8`=46iGj<`oKc9oaJO[9=b Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:162439 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:57782 Archived-At: tyler writes: > Xah Lee writes: > >> «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.» > > Ironically, I just used the scratch buffer as the repository for the > text of your previous message. rot13-region doesn't work in the > read-only gnus buffers, so I needed to transfer it to a different > buffer. C-c C-r works in gnus. Which does not mean that alternative ways are a bad idea. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum